The city is also known for a Sanctuary built after the event of May 26th 1432: the young Giannetta De' Vacchi was picking up grass in the fields while, it is said, Mary, the mother of Jesus appeared to the girl. As a sign of the apparition, a source of water started to flow out of nowhere.
This water eventually brought many beneficial effects to people, and the Sanctuary is build over the source, and it is visited yearly by thousands of pilgrims who go there to drink the holy water.
Caravaggio won the acclaim of the mob, the lowlifes who knew nothing about art: and that, of course, is why he was in such demand with religious orders and confraternities.
Caravaggio's innovative portrayal of light is what makes the fruit so luscious as it reflects in each individual grape, just as it does in the vase in his closely related Boy Bitten by a Lizard (click here to see the work) in London's National Gallery.
Caravaggio portrays Medusa's face frozen in the reflective shield, which the hero Perseus uses to avoid her petrifying stare, at the moment of her decapitation.
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