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- Caravaggio - Naples, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Porto Ercole: 1606–10
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Which paintings did Caravaggio create while hiding in Sicily?
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Caravaggio
The Conversion of St. Paul (second version), oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1601; in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.
While in Sicily between 1608 and 1609, Caravaggio created the following paintings:
- The Burial of St. Lucy, a large altarpiece for the Basilica di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro in Syracuse.1
- A heartbreakingly desolate Adoration of the Shepherds.1
- A starkly simplified, almost neo-Byzantine Resurrection of Lazarus.1