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s. Luigi dei Francesi

S. Luigi dei Francesi, as you‘ll see, rather than a Church looks like the exhibition of a lot of artists, but two of them excels: Caravaggio an’ Domenichino.

Two artists quite so far it’s hard to fancy: the deep sensibility of Domenichino and the spectacular dramatic power of Caravaggio excite different feelings, as you see the one you come back to the other, looking at their works is just to read their hearth.     

Domenichino wrote: “one must not only to gaze at the sentiments, but he must feel an’ suffer them”. The histories of S. Cecilia, one of the top Domenichino’s masterpieces, show this approach. 

Caravaggio too is at the top of his art in San Luigi, it’s easy to understand why he affected the history of painting in a such tremendous way.

Now it’s time to enter, the sensitive plant may help us:

 

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