Published on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio death, the turbulent life and revolutionary masterpieces of a genius: Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio. A new and stimulating opportunity to penetrate the very essence of the “terribly natural” painter, his revolutionary and astonishing naturalistic criterion. The text includes a timeline, a catalogue of the works, a critical anthology and a selected bibliography. Francesca Marini is an art historian and a writer. She published several artist monographs for Skira including Caravaggio, Bacon, Gericault, Tintoretto. She is also the author of dossiers in the Skira exhibition catalogues Modigliani (2006) and Bacon (2008).