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What crosses the dark room in The Calling of Saint Matthew?
Answer: Beam of light
Why: That beam lines up with the small window that lets daylight into the real chapel where the painting hangs.
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What did Caravaggio paint his Medusa on?
Answer: A shield
Why: The shield was commissioned as a gift for Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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What did Caravaggio use for his only ceiling painting?
Answer: Oil paint
Why: Fresco means pigment set into wet plaster; Caravaggio laid oils on the plaster, so his ceiling is no fresco.
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Who were the Caravaggisti?
Answer: His followers
Why: Unlike most painters, he never set up a workshop, so he had no school of pupils to spread his techniques.
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How old was Caravaggio when he died?
Answer: 38
Why: His last journey was from Naples toward Rome, where a pope's pardon for the 1606 killing seemed close.
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Where in Caravaggio's Bacchus is a tiny self-portrait hidden?
Answer: The wine carafe
Why: First noticed during a 1922 cleaning, the figure faded from view until infrared scans brought it back in 2009.
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