Displacing Caravaggio : art, media, and humanitarian visual culture / Francesco Zucconi ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1...

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Main Author:	Zucconi, Francesco (Author)
Other Authors:	Hanafi, Zakiya, 1959- (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Italian
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:	Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, > 1573-1610. Humanism in art. Human beings in art.