 Caravaggio had fled there after killing a man in a brawl in Rome, and he arrived at the end of September or beginning of October 1606.His stay in the city lasted only about eight months, with another brief visit in 1609/1610, yet his impact on artistic life there was profound.Caracciolo, only five years younger than Caravaggio, was among the first there to adopt the startling new style with its sombre palette, dramatic tenebrism, and sculptural figures in a shallow picture plane defined by light rather than by perspective.