Caravaggio’s mastery as a modern lighting designer’s reflection

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s celebrated work happens to be the result of a perceptual education that he received in Milan and to the continuous pursuing of his quest for skills in Rome. He improved his technique in such a way that, according to G.P.Bellori, painters "praised him as the unique imitator of nature, and looked his work as miracles". The mastery of light he progressively gained during this period, led him to innovate in terms of optical solutions he adopted controlling the light dispersion in his studio through the reflectance of his environment.