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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Melanie McDonagh

The Last Caravaggio at the National Gallery review: the final self-revelation of a troubled, violent genius

There’s a good girl and a bad girl in the National Gallery’s one room show billed as the Last Caravaggio.

On the one wall, there’s Salome, who is just taking possession of the head of John the Baptist from the headsman after her dance of the Seven Veils; her face is turned aside from her prize, and no wonder.

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