Caravaggio: The Genius Painter Who Killed a Man

He changed painting forever, and then he killed a man. On the run with a death sentence on his head, Caravaggio painted his own face on the severed head of Goliath. And one of his masterpieces is still missing today. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:47 Milan to Rome 1:14 Light and Dirt 1:44 Fame 2:18 The Other Caravaggio 2:45 Murder 3:15 Outlaw 3:35 Malta 4:39 On the Run 5:12 The Head of Goliath 6:14 Porto Ercole 7:16 The Missing Nativity Hidden in Oil tells the dark, true stories hidden in the world's most famous paintings: murders, thefts, forgeries and obsessions, told with the real artworks. New stories every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe:    / @hiddeninoil   All images are public-domain artworks and archival photographs (Wikimedia Commons). Narration and music are AI-generated. Sources & image credits: • The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Caravaggio · 1608 · St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta) • Cardinal Scipione Borghese (Ottavio Leoni (attr.) · early 17th century) • Boy with a Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio · c. 1593 · Galleria Borghese) • The Cardsharps (Caravaggio · c. 1594 · Kimbell Art Museum) • The Conversion of Saint Paul (Caravaggio · 1601 · Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome) • David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio · c. 1610 · Galleria Borghese, Rome) • David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio · c. 1607 · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) • The Death of the Virgin (Caravaggio · 1606 · Louvre) • The Fortune Teller (Caravaggio · c. 1595 · Louvre) • The Raising of Lazarus (Caravaggio · 1609 · Messina) • Portrait of Caravaggio (Ottavio Leoni · c. 1621 · Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence) • The Burial of Saint Lucy (Caravaggio · 1608 · Syracuse) • The Lute Player (Caravaggio · c. 1596 · Hermitage) • The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio · 1599–1600 · San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome) • The Calling of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio · 1599–1600 · San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome) • Medusa (Caravaggio · c. 1597 · Uffizi) — Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0 • The Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio · 1607 · Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples) • Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence (Caravaggio · 1609 · stolen 1969) • Porto Ercole, Tuscany (Photograph) — Petitverdot: Matteo Vinattieri, CC BY 3.0 • Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio · c. 1609 · National Gallery, London) • The Contarelli Chapel (San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome · photograph) — Lijil, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Young Sick Bacchus (Caravaggio · c. 1593 · Galleria Borghese) — Architas, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Valletta and the harbours of Malta (Engraving · 17th century) • Alof de Wignacourt (Caravaggio · 1607–1608 · Louvre) #arthistory #famouspaintings #darkhistory