Caravaggio Head Frais . After the murder, caravaggio was banished from rome from 1606, spending time in naples, sicily, and malta. On may 1606 caravaggio was accused of murder and fled from rome to distant lands (naples, sicily, malta) to escape the price that had been placed on his head. 25.10.2021 · but caravaggio was a prolific painter, and medusa, portraying the greek mythological head crowned with live snakes, was just one of an extensive portfolio of outstanding paintings. 05.08.2014 · caravaggio painted a number of beheadings, among which are a medusa's head, his own in the famous david and goliath, which is often incorrectly dated to after this period, when in fact it enters the borghese collection in 1606, two years before this.