How brutal, crime-ridden Naples produced Caravaggio’s final masterpiece

Caravaggio’s ‘The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula’ is at the National Gallery from April 18 to July 21 – Julian Simmonds for The Telegraph ‘See Naples and die.’ In other words, this amazing city is so beautiful that the experience of visiting it cannot be beat. It’s an old saying, probably coined by the medieval Neapolitan … Read more

how a once-forgotten masterpiece became the National Gallery’s final coup

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610 (National Gallery) Deformed, weak, afraid for his life and desperate to return to Rome – Caravaggio was in bad shape in May 1610. He lifted a brush in his studio in Naples after months of recovery from a violent attack, to continue work on his painting The Martyrdom of … Read more

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