Narcissus  1597

The work is at the center of a long debate attributive: even the names of Manfredi, Gentileschi and Spadarino have been proposed, in addition to Caravaggio. The restoration of 1995 confirmed, however, the reference to the Lombard master, who might have made the canvas towards the end of the sixteenth century, in a period of transformation of his style: a painter, a guest a...