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. CHAPTER  1. CARAVAGGIO 'St Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy'

Private collection, Rome

. CHAPTER  3 . EMILIE MOREAU 'Rendezvous a la mer'

Fictitious Artwork

. CHAPTER  6 . CARAVAGGIO 'Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence'

Church of San Lorenzo, Palermo

. CHAPTER  26. EDUARDO PAOLOZZi 'Sir Isaac Newton statue'

British Library, London

. CHAPTER 27. ANNIBALE CARRACCI  'Assumption of the Virgin'

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

. CHAPTER 27. CARAVAGGIO 'Conversion on the Way to Damascus'

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

. CHAPTER 46 .CARAVAGGIO 'The Supper at St Emmaus'

National Gallery, London

. CHAPTER 46 .CARAVAGGIO 'St Francis in Meditation'

National Gallery, London

. CHAPTER 46 .CARAVAGGIO 'The Narcissus'

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

. CHAPTER 47.  DAVID WYNN 'Girl with a Dolphin'

Riverside, Tower Bridge, London

. CHAPTER 54 .CARAVAGGIO 'Rest on the flight to Egypt'

Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome

. CHAPTER 62 . DA VINCI 'Mona Lisa'

The Louvre, Paris

. CHAPTER 62 . CECIL BEATON 'Portrait of Audrey Hepburn'

Unknown collection

. CHAPTER 62. ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI 'Self Portrait'

Royal Collection, London

. CHAPTER 65. UNKNOWN 'Magdalene Weeping'

National Gallery, London

. CHAPTER 65. PHILIPEE DE CHAMPAIGNE 'Penitent Magdalene'

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

. CHAPTER 66. FRANCESCO HAYEZ 'The Kiss'

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

. CHAPTER 75. MATTHAIS STOM 'Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist'

National Gallery, London

. CHAPTER 75. TROPHIME BIGOT' Judith cutting off the Head of Holofernes'

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

. CHAPTER 75. BERNARDO STROZZI 'The Martyrdom of St Ursula'

Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples.

. CHAPTER 80. CARAVAGGIO 'The Martyrdom of St Ursula'

Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples.

. CHAPTER 80. CARAVAGGiO 'Judith Beheading Holefernes'

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

.CHARTER 80.CARAVAGGIO 'Salome with the Head of John the Baptist'

National Gallery, London

.CHAPTER80.CARAVAGGIO   'The Sacrifice of Isaac

Uffizi, Florence

. CHAPTER 80.CARAVAGGIO 'Crowning with Thorns'

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

.CHAPTER 80.CARAVAGGIO 'Burial of St Lucy'

The church of Santa Lucia al Sepolcro, Syracuse, Sicily

. CHAPTER 80. CARAVAGGIO ' Martyrdom of St Matthew'

Contarelli Chapel, Rome

. CHAPTER 80.CARAVAGGIO 'Beheading of St John the Baptist'

St Johns Co-Cathedral, Malta

. CHAPTER 84.CARAVAGGIO  'The Supper at St Emmaus II'

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

. CHAPTER 84.CARAVAGGIO 'David with the Head of Goliath'

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

. CHAPTER 86.CARAVAGGIO 'Medusa'

Uffizi, Florence

. CHAPTER 89. CARAVAGGIO 'The Flagellation of Christ'

Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

. CHAPTER 89.CARAVAGGIO 'Christ at the column'

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen

. CHAPTER 92.LANDOWSKI 'Christ the Redeemer'

Corcovado Mountain, Rio de Janeiro

. CHAPTER 96.CARAVAGGIO 'The Narcissus'

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome