We're on his trail

We're heading out to Italy within the next couple of hours and plan to loosely follow the trail of Caravaggio sans Milan (where little is known of his childhood) and Malta. Some consider him the greatest artist of all time. There is a saying that there are two types of art: pre- Caravaggio and post-Caravaggio. I am not yet convinced but hope to be.
'Caravaggio': The Artist as Outlaw

Having spent his brief, tragic and turbulent life painting miracles, he managed, in the process, to create one - the miracle of art, the miracle of the way in which some paint, a few brushes, a square of canvas, together with that most essential ingredient, genius, can produce something stronger than time and age, more powerful than death.