Our five-star exhibition, 'Saint Francis of Assisi', has won Exhibition of the Year at the Critic's Circle Art & Architecture Awards! Join Dr Joost Joustra, co-curator of the show, as he takes a closer look at one of Caravaggio's earliest masterpieces that was featured in the exhibition. #SaintFrancis #NationalGallery | National Gallery

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610) Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influe

Macabre - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio