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However sketchy a student he may have been, many of the traits that would define him as a painter were shaped by the milieu in which he spent his youth. Throughout Caravaggio’s formative years, Milan was dominated by its firebrand Counter-Reformation archbishop, Charles Borromeo (later Saint Charles Borromeo). Borromeo, whose preaching reached a fever pitch during and after the years of the great plague, believed that the Catholic world had fallen into an abyss of sin from which it could redeem itself only by returning to the most basic teachings of Jesus Christ. He placed strong emphasis on the poverty ...(100 of 7932 words)