A convenient ploy to discern the Caravaggesque from the Caravaggists

In this pamphlet, I intend to dictate guidelines in order to distinguish between Caravaggesque painters (coeval with the Master of Bergamo) and Caravaggists, who learned Merisi’s lesson through the Caravaggeschi.I also delve into some features of the life of the accursed painter who enjoyed a thunderous révival after the succession of gay prides around the world silenced a bacchetton and edgy art criticism.I tell of the painter’s loves of Caravaggio but also of his artistic admirers and proselytes in the dark years after his death in Maremma.