The Conversion of St. Paul

The Conversion of St. Paul, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)

It looks like a picture of a horse’s… well, of the back part of a horse. Caravaggio’s painting of the conversion of St. Paul in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome puts the story’s equine character front and center. What gives? The practical joke of a roguish artist?

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