This is probably the best inclusion of a Caravaggio work in the series, the painting of the story of David and the giant Goliath, which Tom visits in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Tom wanders ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Some 430 years after the Lombard artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, swept into Rome to enchant, and land, well-placed patrons with ...

from the Sick Bacchus to David with the Head of Goliath and then the Saint John the Baptist, paintings that probably accompanied the artist even in his final escape". Caravaggio, who was born in ...