1/4 Who Killed Caravaggio ? - Secret Lives of the Artists

First broadcast: 2002. Episode 3/3 When Caravaggio died in 1610 , he was 39 years old, the most famous painter of his age and an exile from Rome after killing a man in a street fight. But his death has always been a mystery, with no body, no grave site, and conflicting stories of what happened. In 2001, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon went in search of the true story of the extraordinary life and mysterious death of one of the greatest