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On the north side, the church of Santa Maria del Popolo is important for Raphael’s Chigi Chapel, exquisite frescoes by Pincuricchio, and, above all, two profoundly disturbing early 17th-century paintings by Caravaggio, the Conversion of St. Paul and Crucifixion of St. Peter, in the Cerasi Chapel left of the choir.
The Madonna and saints of Annibale Carracci further paved the way for the Baroque, attracting the faithful with a sensuous image of ideal beauty, while Caravaggio made a more brutal, but no less effective, appeal with a proletarian Mary and barefoot Apostles.
And compare Caravaggio’s mastery of chiaroscuro (the play of light and dark) in the service of realism in his violent Abraham and Isaac (1590) with the more contemplative style of Rembrandt in the famous Old Rabbi (1658) and other portraits.
The stark realism you’ll see in Caravaggio’s Flagellation and the Seven Works of Mercy launched a whole Neapolitan school of “Caravaggeschi” displayed here.
Caravaggio admirers will find some of his greatest masterpieces right in the neighborhood: the St. Matthew trilogy in the fine Baroque church of San Luigi dei Francesi, and the moving Madonna of the Pilgrims in the Renaissance church of Sant’Agostino.