Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) lived probably the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan and Rome through which Caravaggi…

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