“Death,” “Soul in Purgatory,” and “Soul in Hell”

Manuel Chili, known as Caspicara, “Four Fates of the Soul: Death; Soul in Heaven; Soul in Purgatory; Soul in Hell” (ca. 1775)

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Rome has many stories of magicians, the necromancers inhabiting the Colosseum described by Vasari, Cagliostro in a house near Trinita di monti, making gems bigger...

The illusionist functions at the moment of distraction.

The coffee boils over.

Anthony Blunt describes the baroque as deception and the pleasure of the discovery of deception.