Michelangelo Merisi, commonly known as Caravaggio, is one of the top representatives of Italian art of all times, able to stand out with his paintings not only thanks to several masterpieces made during his short life – reaching an extraordinary fame – but also to leave a deep mark in the artists that came after him.

Michelangelo was born in Milan in 29 of September 1571, as proved in the research of Vittorio Pisani, who in 2007 discovered the baptism certificate of the great painter in the archives of the Church of Santo Stefano in Brolo in Milan, drawn up the day after his birth, debunking the idea that the painter was born in Caravaggio, which was the birth place of his parents Fermo Merisi and Alicia Aratori.