Reply #1: I did an independent study on him for my Master's degree. [View All]

[CTyankee]

Toward the end of his life he was on the run from the authorities in Rome who had declared him a "bandito." He didn't paint that much at that time and he doesn't have a huge repertory. But who knows?

I had no idea the paints were that toxic. It's interesting...what happened to the other painters who were equally prodigious at the time...such as the Carracci brothers and other Baroque era painters...

More research needs to be done. I have wondered at the short life of seveal painters of the Renaissance, such as Raphael. Perhaps now we have a better explanation for them too, unless the chemical nature of paint changed from the Renaissance to the Baroque era...