Caravaggio’s criminal records began in 1600, just as his public career in Rome was taking off, and were to culminate there in a murder charge. His initial minor offenses included carrying a sword without a permit and throwing artichokes at a waiter in a restaurant when he thought the waiter was being rude.
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| — | Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture (via pedrosanchez) |
