On a hot July day in 1610, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, one of the greatest painters of all time, vanished. His death was announced but how he died has remained a mystery. Had he been murdered, died of disease, of wounds sustained in a fight?

Caravaggio is one of history’s most fascinating and controversial figures. He is the original bad boy of the art world who brawled his way through life, antagonised, formed dangerous alliances, and followed a questionable moral compass.

But somehow, when Caravaggio was not creating scandal, he revolutionised the art world. And he did so in a time when the all-powerful Vatican was under assault and had little patience for rebellious souls…

Theories have been formed yet none have conclusively shed light on Caravaggio’s disappearance. But now a team of Italian scientists has found what may well be his remains. Using all the tools of modern science at their disposal to solve a 400 year mystery, this is CSI, Renaissance style.

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