For 10 points, name this pugnacious artist of The Calling of St. Matthew.
His Death of the Virgin was viewed to be irreverent because it shows Mary quite physically dead. This was a few years after he completed three works for the Contarelli chapel for his best patron, Cardinal Del Monte. The head of the Knights of Malta commissioned his Beheading of St. John the Baptist and offered him protection after his slaying of Ranuccio Tomassoni over a tennis match. This master of chiaroscuro may be most well known for his tenebrism as seen in Supper at Emmaus and The Cardsharps. For 10 points, name this pugnacious artist of The Calling of St. Matthew.
His Death of the Virgin was viewed to be irreverent because it shows Mary quite physically dead.
{Caravaggio} [or {Michelangelo} de Merisi before mentioned]