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Simon Vouet’s Buona Ventura – the lamentable effects of palm reading

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Caravaggio’s Young Sick Bacchus – an artist in the guise or perhaps something much more?

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Raphael’s Woman with a Unicorn - an image of a virgin marked by virtue

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Dawid z głową Goliata – przejmujące wołanie o pomoc boskich i ziemskich sił

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Simon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque

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Bronzino’s John the Baptist – between cold eroticism and refined devotion

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Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist – a work of art, sacrilege, or child pornography?

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Van Honthorst’s The Concert – singing together or perhaps a peregrination of the prodigal son?

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The Temptation of St. Francis – a lesson in the taming of the senses

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Raphael’s Fornarina – a mysterious love interest or perhaps…

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Domenichino’s The Hunt of Diana – a painting about spying and its unfortunate results

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Caravaggio’s Madonna of Loreto - the sanctity of dirty, coarse feet

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Carlo Saraceni’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne – an everyday life scene and… a dove

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Giovanni Lanfranco’s Apparition of the Virgin to St. Lawrence – a thematic painting yet not bereft of artistry

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Bronzino’s Madonna with Child, St. John the Baptist and St. Anne – meaning a song of love sentenced to suffering

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Caravaggio’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne – a work despite and against itself

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Magdalene Fainting – a bold act (between mystical rapture and sexual ecstasy

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Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of St. Matthew – death among onlookers and terrified passersby

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Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion of St. Peter – a painting on the banality of evil

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Giovanni Baglioni’s Heavenly Love and Earthly Love – a virtue in the struggle against sin

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Caravaggio’s Narcissus at the Source – a tragedy of unfulfilled love, or perhaps a story about the essence of art

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Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul – meaning how Saul became Paul

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The Incredulity of St. Thomas– and how strong is your faith?

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Domenichino’s The Last Communion of St. Jerome – a work about the superiority of communion under one kind

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Guercino’s The Funeral of St. Petronilla – a difficult topic, masterfully solved

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Pokutująca Maria Magdalena Charlesa Mellina – między atrakcyjnym mitem a nagą prawdą

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Guido Reni’s The Penitent Magdalene – between sinful charm and heavenly vision

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Portrait of Cardinal Bernardino Spada – a diligent, hard-working, and prudent official

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Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X – a real, perceptive and effective portrait

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Portrait of Pope Clement IX – a subtle image of a delicate pontifex

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Bronzino’s Portrait of Stefano Colonna – a picture-perfect condottiero

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Pietro da Cortona’s Rape of the Sabine Women – all is well that ends well

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Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew – how a sinner becomes the chosen of God

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Carlo Saraceni’s Transitus Mariae – meaning how the Discalced Carmelites co-created the image of the Most Holy Virgin

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The Transfiguration – the most divine of all Raphael’s works

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Van Honthorst’s The Beheading of St. John the Baptist – a work immersed in darkness

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s Saint Cecilia Playing the Lute – an autoportrait in the guise of a saint

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Carlo Saraceni’s St. Cecilia with an Angel - two musicians

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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background

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Caravaggio’s Saint Jerome – the Doctor of the Church as a weapon in the struggle against heretics

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Święty Jan Chrzciciel Caravaggia – znużony efeb czy melancholijny święty?

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Ukrzyżowanie świętego Piotra – męczeństwo jako akt wypełnienia się woli Bożej

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Giovanni Lanfranco’s Venus Playing the Harp – a tribute to music or perhaps to love?

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Bronzino’s Venus, Cupid, and Satyr – a sublime allegory or a courtly jest?

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Caravaggio’s Fortune Teller – a painting about the dangers of life and the illusion of art

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Caravaggio’s The Entombment of Christ – a perfect work

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Dirck van Baburen’s The Entombment of Christ – catching up with Caravaggio

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Raphael’s The Deposition – a painting of suffering, the fragility of life and an unforgettable loss

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Antoniazzo Romano’s Annunciation – meaning, how the Virgin Mary can miss the most important moment of her life