“This marvellous gesture of the outstretched right hand is very reminiscent of the gesture of Christ in The Calling of Saint Matthew,” which Caravaggio painted around 1600. The Italian ...
“I believe it was painted in 1598 because Barberini’s hand gesture is similar to Christ’s in Caravaggio’s Calling of St Matthew, also painted that year,” she added. Ms Nicita said it was ...