Caravaggio: The Final Years


The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist 1608

The National Gallery's exhibition of Caravaggio's late works will be one of the biggest shows of the year. The exhibition Caravaggio: The Final Years explores the painter's late works when, after killing a man in a duel, he was forced to flee Rome at the height of his career. The Guardian came up with a special issue in which Jonathan Jones set out to see every known Caravaggio in existence. On the way he built up a unique portrait of the brawling, philandering gangster who created some of his greatest work on the run, wanted for murder.

• The complete Caravaggio part one
• The complete Caravaggio part two
  
• The complete Caravaggio: a selection of some of the paintings Jonathan Jones visited
• Caravaggio: The Final Years: National Gallery