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CARAVAGGIO: The Seven Works of Mercy

🖼 The Seven Works of Mercy, 1607
Oil on canvas
Naples, Italy

Dramatic chiaroscuro bathes intertwined figures performing acts of mercy—feeding, sheltering, visiting—in a single unified composition. Caravaggio revolutionized religious art by depicting sacred charity through everyday people and street-level realism, transforming devotional imagery into visceral human experience.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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