Caravaggio's artistic creation can be divided into several periods.

In his early days, Caravaggio studied painting with Simon Peter Elchano in Milan. Under the influence of this teacher, he came into contact with the artificial art, but what influenced him the most was the works of some masters in the Renaissance and the tragic real life of Lombardy. In the 1990s, he came to Rome and began to seek his own artistic path. In Rome, the posturing style did not interest him, but it was the still life paintings and genre paintings left by the masters of past dynasties that attracted his interest. Caravaggio's early representative works of genre painting reflecting real life include The Woman, The Card Player, The Guitarist and The Boy with Fruit.

"Woman" Bravagio's Italian "Woman" depicts a street scene that Caravaggio accidentally saw. A gypsy woman, probably a vagrant who lives by divination, has the skill of palm reading of Kyrgyzstan, sly eyes, faint smile and gentlemanly grasp of a young man's hand. The composition of the whole work is concise, and two busts of a man and a woman are interlocking. Because only the bust of the character was depicted, all unnecessary details were deleted. Make the characters stand out. This half-length genre painting seems to be a favorite form in Caravaggio's early works. Both "card player" and "guitarist" adopt this form.

Caravaggio's early works are naturalistic and full of life.

(2) Caravaggio's creative activities reached their peak from 1597 to 1606. During this period, he created a lot of works, and his artistic style gradually formed and improved. It completely overcame the influence of affectation and found a new way to apply the new techniques obtained in genre painting to religious painting, which was one of his major breakthroughs in religious painting.

1598, he painted Matthew, the apostle called by Christ, for the Lansik church in Roman law, which is a religious painting with extremely strong customs. As soon as the work came out, it caused controversy. Caravaggio killed his opponent by mistake in a quarrel, forcing him to leave Rome and move to Naples. From then on, I began a wandering life. The long wandering life gives the painter the opportunity to fully contact and observe the lives of the lower classes, and makes him a first-class Italian artist in the17th century with the spirit of bold innovation and praising ordinary people in his works.

Caravaggio's representative works in his heyday include Ascension of the Virgin Mary and Sao Paulo Reform. These works are genre paintings in the name of religion.

(3) Caravaggio entered the late stage of creation from 1606 to 16 10. During this period, the painter created the beheading of John the Baptist and the funeral of San Lucio. His last masterpieces are the coming of Christ and the whipping of Christ, and the treatment of these pictures is called "black painting". 16 10, Caravaggio died of illness at the age of 37.

Caravaggio's realistic painting style has a strong influence not only on Italy but also on the whole of Europe. European painters such as Rubens, velazquez, Rembrandt and the Lenan brothers were all influenced by Caravaggio more or less directly or indirectly. His appearance. It marks the development of realistic painting in Europe in the17th century to a new stage.