 By this time he had become the leader of the new Neapolitan school, dividing his time between religious subjects (altarpieces and, unusually for a Caravaggist, frescos) and paintings for private patrons.After 1618 he visited Genoa, Rome and Florence.In Rome he came under the influence of the revived Classicism of the Carracci cousins and the Emilian school, and began working towards a synthesis of their style with his own tenebrism – his "Cupid", with its bravura handling of the red cloth, shows the influence of the Carracci synthesis.