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)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Fine arts. Ethnology. Culture-Study and teaching.
ISBN:	9783319933788
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