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CARAVAGGIO: The Seven Acts of Mercy

🖼 The Seven Acts of Mercy, c. 1607
Oil on canvas
390 × 260 cm
Naples, Italy

Dramatic chiaroscuro illuminates seven biblical mercy scenes stacked vertically, figures tumbling across canvas in urgent, overlapping gestures. Caravaggio's revolutionary composition transforms religious narrative into visceral street-level drama, merging divine charity with everyday human suffering in revolutionary emotional intensity.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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