Caravaggio - Baroque, Naturalism, Chiaroscuro | Britannica Caravaggio - Baroque, Naturalism, Chiaroscuro: 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