Caravaggio's death mystery may soon be unravelled

The mystery surrounding the death of Baroque master Caravaggio may son be resolved thanks to new DNA tests- as long as the right body can be found. What caused the death of the painter in 1610 and the whereabouts of the corpse have always been unclear. The team -armed with a CAT scan and kits for carbon dating- plan to study the painter's exhumed remains to discover how he died. Just his skull will be enough to reconstruct his face just like Dante Alighieri's face was reconstructed in 2007. The only images of the artist available until now have been self-portraits. The most popular painter might have been assassinated for religious reasons or might have collapsed with malaria on a deserted Tuscan beach. There is no clear idea till now.