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Framedl 2026-06-24 1/6*
Caravaggio had the temerity to paint saints with dirty feet and a drowned prostitute as the model for 'Death of the Virgin.'
After he killed a man in Rome, he spent four years painting between escapes in Naples, Malta, Sicily. He died on a beach at Porto Ercole, chasing a pardon that had already come.
The cause is still argued: a brawl wound gone septic, or the lead in his own paint slowly poisoning him, maybe even feeding the rages that kept him running. The pigment as the possible murderer.
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