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Carlo Sellitto (1580–1614) was among the first generation of Neapolitan painters to respond to the example of Caravaggio, whose presence in Naples transformed the city’s artistic culture during the opening years of the seventeenth century. Although his career was cut short by his death at the age of thirty-four, Sellitto had established a flourishing workshop,Continue reading “Carlo Sellitto (1580–1614): An Introduction.”