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Merisi Mary The Virgin
This figure represented two different interpretative stories of the human state, physical, and emotional during the contemporary and modern history of art. Both artists express filling for the era in which they live using filling and interpretation of what society represent for them.
The first scene is a composition of a woman (Mary the Virgin) who seems dead and surrounded by plenty masculine figures (the apostles); sitting next to the virgin a female apostle called (Mary Magdalene).
This piece of excellent art has been made in early 600 by one of the most representative Italian artist (painter) of the era.
Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi called and know as Caravaggio. Commissioned by a papal criminal lawyer called Laerzio Cherubini, Caravaggio

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