As a commission for Matteu Cointrel, a French cardinal, Caravaggio painted this piece in 1602 as part of the decoration of a chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi, the French church in Rome.
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates. — St. Thomas Aquinas
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