3The Deposition of Caravaggio: a new vision of Nature and Religion

The next stop on this exciting adventure at the Vatican Museums is one of the most famous masterpieces of the great Caravaggio. We refer to the Deposition made by Merisi between 1600 and 1604 for the chapel of Girolamo Vittrice in the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome.

An iconographic solution as usual innovative, that of the Lombard painter, who chose to represent the tragic moment in which John and Nicodemus place the body of Christ on the tombstone of his tomb. The pinnacle of Caravaggesque naturalism, the work is one of the many masterpieces made by Merisi in Capitoline City, before his death sentence for murder.

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