This is probably the best inclusion of a Caravaggio work in the series, the painting of the story of David and the giant Goliath, which Tom visits in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Tom wanders ...

Despite a short life marred by brawls, arrests and even murder, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as ...

What makes it striking is its autobiographical undertone; Goliath’s severed head bears an uncanny resemblance to Caravaggio’s own, while David mirrors his younger visage. “The young ...