Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, had an intense and passionate relationship with Rome, like his life and his works. The revolutionary power of Caravaggio's works has profoundly influenced all subsequent art and still today provokes a magnetic power in the spectator. The extraordinary use of light, the precision and refinement of details, the pictorial interpretation of the scenes makes Caravaggio an everlasting point of reference for the entire history of art.

Caravaggio arrived in Rome around the age of twenty and spent most of his life in this city, he began humbly making copies and portraits, but quickly acquired growing fame and began to dedicate himself to the creation of complex and grandiose works: masterpieces.