eminent painter, born at Caravaggio in the Milanese in 1492. He went young to Rome, where he worked as a labourer in preparing tucco for the painters; and was so animated by seeing them at work in the Vatican, that he solicited some of them to teach him the rules of delineating. He attached himself particularly to Maturino a young Florentine; and a familiarity in talents and taste, producing a disinterested affection, they associated like brothers, laboured together, and lived on one common purse, until the death of Maturino. He understood and practised the chiaro scuro in a degree superior to any in the Roman school; and finished an incredible number of pictures both in fresco and in oil, few of the public buildings at Rome being without some of his paintings. Being obliged