Michelangelo da Caravaggio - the great Italian artist of the early Baroque. The master's brushes belong to magnificent still lifes, numerous altar images. His compositions are characterized by emphasized diagonals, a beam of light that snatches figures from the darkness and models them with plastic tangibility. The influence of Caravaggio marked almost all European painting of the 17th century. The album presents the most famous works of the artist, evidence of his biographers and contemporaries. For a wide range of readers.