[il Caravaggino] (bapt Rome, 24 Dec 1601; d Rome, 21 March 1637). Italian painter. His real name and the dates of his baptism and death were traced by D’Amico (1979); previously he was known as Tommaso Luini, the name given to him in Baglione’s brief account of his artistic career. He is better documented as a criminal than as a painter: a court deposition of 1621 gives his age as 20; and his statement of 1635, when he was on trial for stabbing another painter in the leg, reveals that he had studied with Giovanni Lanfranco and Angelo Caroselli and had attended Andrea Sacchi’s drawing academy between 1630 and 1632. Only three of the public commissions recorded by Baglione survive, all in Rome: the former high altarpiece of S Carlo al Corso, God the Father with Angels Adoring the Holy Sacrament (1630–32; now on the left transept altar), and the lateral paintings in the second chapel on the right in S Maria in Via, St Philip Benizzi Healing a Lame Man and the Death of St Philip Benizzi (both c. 1630–32). Sacchi’s association with Donini is documented by two drawings (1630–32; Düsseldorf, Kstmus.) for the S Carlo altarpiece. There is also a study by Sacchi for the head of one of the monks watching St Philip Benizzi perform his miracle (Holkham Hall, Norfolk). In style the painting is clearly indebted to Sacchi, in particular to his Vision of St Romuald (1631; Rome, Pin. Vaticana), but the companion painting has the strong chiaroscuro and more robust naturalism associated with Caravaggio. Donini was called ‘il Caravaggino’, but whether because of his style of painting or his personal behaviour as a litigious outsider is not known. D’Amico attributed three more Roman altarpieces to him, but the evidence for this remains inconclusive.