Complex sentence: According to an early biographer, one of Caravaggio's aims was to show up critics who claimed that he had no grasp of perspective-these three figures demonstrate the most dramatic foreshortening imaginable.
Split into simpler sentences: According to an early biographer, one of Caravaggio's aims was to discredit critics who claimed that he had no grasp of perspective. The three figures demonstrate the most dramatic foreshortening imaginable.