Whatever the cause, the pope gave him the death sentence, and Caravaggio fled Rome to stay alive. The barber surgeon's report for Tomassoni’s death reported he bled out through the femoral artery in his groin, suggesting Caravaggio had tried to castrate him, which in turn suggests the fight was over a woman. If a man insulted a man's woman he would get his penis cut off." “If a man insulted another man's reputation he might have his face cut. "One of the fascinating things is the discovery that particular wounds in Roman street fights meant particular things,” Graham-Dixon told The Telegraph when his documentary came out. In 2002, a documentary by art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon suggested they were actually fighting over a female prostitute named Fillide Melandroni (Caravaggio had sexual relationships with both men and women), and that he killed Tomassoni while attempting to castrate him. Historians have long theorized that the men got into a fight over a tennis match. Then, in May 1606, he killed a man named Ranuccio Tomassoni. At least two of these incidents took place around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. Between 15, he was arrested for carrying a sword without a permit, sued for beating a man with a stick and accused of attacking another man with a sword. As his profile grew over the next several years, he became notorious for his drinking, gambling, sword-carrying and brawling. After losing both of his parents to the plague when he was a child, he moved to Rome and started selling his own paintings around 1595.
He eventually fled Rome to escape punishment for killing a man and died in exile under mysterious circumstances.Ĭaravaggio was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy in 1571.
THE ITALIAN MAN WHO WENT TO MALTA CARTOON TRIAL
In the early 17th century, Caravaggio went to trial at least 11 times for things like writing libelous poems, throwing a plate of artichokes at a waiter and assaulting people with swords. The Baroque artist Caravaggio is famous for gruesome paintings like “Judith Beheading Holofernes." Yet it wasn’t only his paintings that were brutal and violent.
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