TORTURED SOUL Italian painter Ottavio Leoni’s 1621 chalk likeness is the closest we have to an accurate portrait of Caravaggio
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SEX AND VIOLENCE BEHIND THE CANVAS
The year was 1606, and Rome’s most celebrated, most revolutionary and, by far, most scandalous Renaissance artist was fleeing the city in fear of his life. Was he escaping the enemies he made due to his paintings? Or had his violent tendencies caught up with him?