Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (, , ; 28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily from the early 1590s to 1610. His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Cecco del Caravaggio
An identification has also been made between Francesco Boneri/Cecco del Caravaggio and the boy who models for a number of paintings done by Caravaggio in the period 1600/1606, including the famous "Amor Vincit" and the "John the Baptist" in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. The identification is based on the statements found in early authors that the model for "Amor Vincit" was a boy named Cecco who was also Caravaggio's servant and possibly pupil.