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A portrait sketch: 10 people Caravaggio knocked heads with
Hardly any artist of the past had as many jokes and scandalous gossip going around as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Strictly speaking, most of his life can be described using the scheme: "Once Caravaggio scrapped with...". Instead of the points of ellipsis, there can be "his employer, his model, his teacher, his drinking companion, the priest, his colleague, his mistress, his lover, the…