The Fire Christ Came to Kindle

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When you enter the chapel of the Venerable English College in Rome, the first thing that draws your eye is the high altar. Above it hangs a canvas, darkened a little with age, painted in 1583 by Durante Alberti. At first glance it looks like many other Counter-Reformation altarpieces: Christ hangs upon the cross, flanked…

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