THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC

  In this painting painted for Pope Urban VIII, Caravaggio exposes the horror of a father's willingness to sacrifice his son. The spectator assists in distress at the moment in which an angel, of human appearance, stops with an energetic gesture the hand Abraham before he slams Isaac, his firstborn,...

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THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAN PEDRO

  Roberto Longhi affirms referring to this picture of darkness and half-open just what is necessary to not lessen his tragic and virile pessimism, everything happens with an unconscious evidence that each one fulfills his task. The desolation resides in the pure and simple event ... And the saint,...

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