Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as Caravaggio, in Naples lived for only eighteen months between October 1606 and June 1607 and subsequently in the autumn of 1609 until his death occurred in 1610 in Porto Ercole on the return journey from Naples to Rome.
Despite the brevity, it was an intense and fundamental period for his artistic production and for his life. Caravaggio in Naples created several masterpieces.
