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5 Things You Should Know About the crazed artist, Caravaggio

By Gregory Earls

1. On April 26th 1604, at a nice restaurant in Rome, Caravaggio ordered a plate of eight artichoke hearts, four fried and four sautéed. He kindly asked the waiter which was which? Yet when the waiter replied with what Caravaggio interpreted as a smart-ass reply, it was on!

The waiter barely finished his sentence, "Why don't you smell them?" before Caravaggio jumped out of his seat and punched the...