Ian Thomson

A flammable individual

On the night of 18 October 1969, thieves broke into the Oratory of San Lorenzo, Palermo, and removed Caravaggio’s Nativity.

  • Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

    Andrew Graham-Dixon

    Allen Lane, pp. 514

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