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Located in the Pinacoteca of the Vatican Museums, Caravaggio's "Deposition" was thought by many of his contemporaries to be the painter's greatest work. The dramatic representation of very real-looking biblical characters handling the dead body of Christ in a shallow, tenebrously-lit foreground space makes for a very moving visual narrative.
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Located in the Pinacoteca of the Vatican Museums, Caravaggio's "Deposition" was thought by many of his contemporaries to be the painter's greatest work. The dramatic representation of very real-looking biblical characters handling the dead body of Christ in a shallow, tenebrously-lit foreground space makes for a very moving visual narrative.

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