An exhibition in Rome casts a bright light on the shadow’s of Caravaggio’s spirituality

Here in Ireland the recovery in 1993 of a Caravaggio painting from the wall of the dining room of the Jesuit residence in Leeson Street, Dublin, made us all very conscious of this extraordinary artist of the Baroque period. That painting,  The Taking of Christ, from 1602,  now has a home in the National Gallery,  where…