Judith and Holofernes, 1599 (oil on canvas) by Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571-1610) Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
He was named after an angel, yet Caravaggio led a louche existence in the shadows of a society where prostitution, violence and murder ran rife. A revelatory new biography sheds some much-needed light on the artist's dark life
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