title: Caravaggio's Rome
author: Rossella Vodret
description: Rossella Vodret is director of the Polo Museale of Rome.
zlib_text: R E N A I S S A N C E  A N D  B A R O Q U E :  S T U D I E S  A N D  T E X T S
  34
  ANNE H. MURAOKA
  The Path 
  of Humility
  Caravaggio and Carlo Borromeo
  
  The Path of Humility: Caravaggio and Carlo Borromeo establishes a fundamen-
  tal relationship between the Franciscan humility of Archbishop of Milan Carlo
  Borromeo and the Roman sacred works of Caravaggio. This is the first book
  to consider and focus entirely upon these two seemingly anomalous personal-
  ities of the Counter-Reformation. The import of Caravaggio’s Lombard artis-
  tic heritage has long been seen as pivotal to the development of his sacred style,
  but it was not his only source of inspiration. This book seeks to enlarge the
  discourse surrounding Caravaggio’s style by placing him firmly in the environ-
  ment of Borromean Milan, a city whose urban fabric was transformed into a
  metaphorical Via Crucis. This book departs from the prevailing preoccupa-
  tion—the artist’s experience in Rome as fundamental to his formulation of
  sacred 