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Caravaggio at San Luigi dei Francesi

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Three Paintings That Changed Art Forever Caravaggio at San Luigi dei Francesi is not merely one of the great encounters offered by Rome. It is the place where a young, controversial and still relatively unknown painter changed the course of…

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

The Rebel of Light and Shadow ItalyStories.com Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio entered European painting like a blade of light through darkness. Born in Milan in 1571 and associated by name with the Lombard town of Caravaggio, he lived only thirty-eight…