1 . Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was really born in Milan , and only move to Caravaggio in 1576 , when the creative person was 5 year sometime , because a pestis was ravaging Milan . If it had n’t been for that plague , we would credibly have intercourse Caravaggio by a different name today .
2 . In the picture , the Roman god Cupid is portray trampling symbols of all human activities ( medicine , literature , warfare , astronomy , etc . ) , illustrate a air fromVirgil’sEclogues : " Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori . " ( In English , " love life conquers all ; rent us all yield to love . " ) Some citizenry believe the painting may have also been referring to Vincenzo Giustiniani , who commissioned it . The musical manuscript on the story bears a " Little Phoebe , " and Giustiniani was accomplished in the areas of activity represent . In that case , the picture would also mean , " Vincenzo conquers all . "
3 . Caravaggio was quite the bad boy of the late-16th , early-17th century graphics earth . He was well - known for his brawls , which resulted in several pages of law record and transcript of trial proceedings . In 1606 , he pour down Ranuccio Tomassoni and was illegalise from Rome ; he take flight to Naples . He later received clientele and security from the Knights of Malta , but it was curtly - lived . Apparently , he was in a fight in 1608 that result in a battered door and a seriously hurt knight . He was check in August and declare a " distasteful and rotten member " of the Knights of Malta .
4 . " Amor Vincit Omnia " was the grounds of a competition between Caravaggio andGiovanni Baglione . Vincenzo Giustiniani ’s buddy , Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani , commission a house painting from Baglione not long after " Amor Vincit Omnia " was dispatch . Baglione ’s part , " Divine and Profane Love " was believed to be of a interchangeable style and root as Caravaggio ’s piece . Caravaggio accuse Baglione of plagiarisation . After taunting from a friend of Caravaggio , Baglione paint a second translation , using Caravaggio ’s look as the face of the devil . The feud continued until Caravaggio ’s death , after which the still perturbed Baglione wrote the first life story of Caravaggio .
5 . Though " Amor Vincit Omnia " may not rank as one of the world ’s most celebrated paintings , it was quite popular in the former 17th C , prompt three madrigals and a Latin epigram .
6 . The specific of Caravaggio ’s death are not very clear . While Caravaggio living in Naples , sometime between 1608 and 1610 , Caravaggio the " famous artist " was report bushed . He was not dead , though an attempt had been made on his spirit , leaving his face seriously disfigured . On July 28 , 1610 , an anon. avviso , or announcement , from Rome reported Caravaggio ’s death ; a few days later , another avviso report that he go of fever . However , his trunk was never found . A friend of Caravaggio by and by listed his dying as July 18 , which has been supported by late research .
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