4.44 avg rating — 93 ratings

"The painting "Misericordia" taken from an important baroque work of the great Caravaggio, is interpreted and linked to the contemporary art by the Maestro Luigi Alba. He revise the work's meaning, altering the scene's composition and changing some characters. The original work proposes a real sign of mercy, on the other hand the new artist's interpretation has a direct meaning that coincides to the present. It is in keeping with the 21st century's cheekiness, with the sensibility's lack of today and most of all with the cooling of love. The artist wanted to bring to mind the tragic event of September 11, changing in the painting the man with the torch, with the Twin Towers' explosion of the World Trade Center (in the upper right) , picking out the Blessed Virgin's inhibition gesture, where she's protecting his son from the vision of the life that we're living, that is not really mercy. The artist changes the innkeeper too with Caifa, the man who encouraged the Christ's death, that was an incredible injustice's sign of the humankind. The Maestro Luigi Alba with this painting shares, with a great sensibility, the grief of all the people that lost their loved ones during that tragic day, wishing that one day the human being will be ready to draw love from the Mercy's chalice. "