Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (1578–1635),

• Was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio.
• On 3 August 1598, at the age of twenty, Caracciolo married Beatrice de Mario.
• They had ten children, of whom eight survived to adulthood.
• His initial training was said to be with Francesco Imparato and Fabrizio Santafede, but the first impulse that directed his art came from Caravaggio's sudden presence in Naples in late 1606.
• Caravaggio had fled there after killing a man in a brawl in Rome, and he arrived at the end of September or beginning of October 1606.
• His stay in the city lasted only about eight months, with another brief visit in 1609/1610, yet his impact on artistic life there was profound.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Virgin Mary with Child and St. Anne, c. 1633.
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