By Steve Pike
Unlike most artists of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was famous during his lifetime. It was a brief, tumultuous life. Born in Milan, Italy, in 1571, Caravaggio — the father of Baroque art — died in poverty and
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In the late 1990s, internationally acclaimed artist Diana Nicosia of Gulf Stream was waiting at the Rome airport for a delayed flight when she struck up a conversation with a man in a black suit sitting next to her. He turned out to be Cardinal Joh
