Caravaggio: Painting Saints While Fleeing a Murder Charge
Renaissance

Caravaggio: Painting Saints While Fleeing a Murder Charge

Italy's most revolutionary painter created his masterpieces while running from a murder charge, hiding in churches and painting saints with the faces of prostitutes and criminals.

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