A revolution in painting: The Baroque realism that electrified art history Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610)was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio'sboundary-breaking naturalismwhich scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feat to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist...