Howard Hibbard's Caravaggio is an insightful look into the troubled mind and life of one of the most discussed artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.  Hibbard immediately expands on his belief that Caravaggio is the most important "Italian painter of the entire seventeenth century."  Furthermore, his paintings "speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time."  Caravaggio is an artist whose life was far different from all other contemporary artists of his time, or any time.  Unlike Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio's works were able to express many of his own feelings and emotions.  As Hibbard says, Caravaggio was an artist who "somehow cut through the artistic conventions of his time right down to the universal blood and bone of life."  Simply put, Caravaggio was the only Italian painter who was able to utilize his own emotion...