Forty-four masterpieces from the National Gallery’s collection are reproduced, framed and hung publicly on the street in London’s Covent Garden and Soho. It is, of course, preferable to see the originals in the gallery but there is something really quite exciting about seeing Caravaggio’s “Salom Receives the Head of Saint John The Baptist” in a Soho passageway with sex shops on either side of it. We couldn’t help but notice the busty blond standing outside her place of work smoking a cigarette. I think Caravaggio would have approved.
