Work discovered in recent times (1926) highlights all the influence exercised by Caravaggio not only stylistically but also from the point of view of the contents.
Inexorably it can be seen how the art of the Italian painter is unreachable.
A brisk symbolism: the face of the unprepared and unwary young man is in light, a symbol of purity of purpose, while that of the cheater is in dim light.
Courtesans are the center of action and offer action reading.
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