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Displacing Caravaggio : art, media, and humanitarian visual culture /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zucconi, Francesco (Author)
Other Authors: Hanafi, Zakiya, 1959- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Italian.
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:
Humanism in art.
Human beings in art.

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