Tommaso Donini

Tommaso Donini or Tommaso Dovini, called Il Caravaggino (21 December 1601, in Rome – 21 March 1637, in Rome) was an Italian painter active mainly in Rome. He was previously erroneously referred to as 'Tommaso Luini' as the 17th century artist biographer Giovanni Baglione referred to him as such in his Le Vite de’ Pittori of 1642. Donini painted altarpieces. He was a follower of Caravaggio.

Life Donini was born in Rome on 21 December 1601 and was baptized on 24 December 1601 in the Santa Maria del Popolo. His father Marco was originally from Venice and was a gilder.

His masters were Giovanni Lanfranco and Angelo Caroselli. Alternatively, it is possibly that he received the nickname for being, like Caravaggio, an outsider with a short fuse and known for being litigious. In 1635 he was involved in a trial for stabbing another painter in the leg.