Depiction of Caravaggio’s deposition painting

This year’s historical re-enactment will end with a performance of Caravaggio’s painting of the Deposition of the Cross.

The Deposition, considered one of Caravaggio’s greatest masterpieces, was commissioned by Girolamo Vittrice for the family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome. In 1797 it was included in the group of works transferred to Paris in execution of the Treaty of Tolentino and became part of the Pinacoteca of Pius VII after its return in 1816.