Caravaggio’s three Saint Matthew canvases, painted 1599–1602 for a French cardinal’s stalled bequest, still hang in San Luigi dei Francesi, lit today by a coin-operated box. The rejected first altarpiece was destroyed in Berlin in 1945.
Caravaggio’s three Saint Matthew canvases, painted 1599–1602 for a French cardinal’s stalled bequest, still hang in San Luigi dei Francesi, lit today by a coin-operated box. The rejected first altarpiece was destroyed in Berlin in 1945.