Caravaggio baptised Michelangelo Merisi was an extremely popular painter during the Baroque Movement and he himself was instrumental in creating new techniques of paintings such as ‘Tenebrism’. He was born in Milan and a plague left him fatherless. Unfortunately, his mother too died after a short period which orphaned him at a very tender age. He probably had an innate interest in painting and owing to this he shifted to Milan and started getting trained under a renowned painter. He then worked with many others painters but finally, realization dawned onto him and he decided to work independently. He created many paintings and even got buyers for those artistic pieces. The trader who bought his paintings introduced his work to Cardinal Francesco del Monte, who liked his paintings to such an extent that he gave Caravaggio shelter as well as entitled him to an allowance. A milestone in this painter’s career was when he was chosen to decorate a chapel. The paintings he made for the chapel got him into controversy and at the same time earned him popularity. He is credited with making a shift from the spiritual perspective of painting and taking a more realistic approach in painting. He was pioneer of the Realism style which replaced the predominant Mannerism style of painting in the then Italy