We visit different churches and museums evoking this artist’s genius through the reading of his paintings. His use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed street boys, prostitutes, the poor and the aged was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on a generation of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or
secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time. He produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. We would like to introduce you to the brief but tumultuous life of this great painter.