What relevance has Caravaggio’s great painting of “The Seven Acts of Mercy” to shipping in the 21st century?
Quite a bit, according to art historian John T Spike, who likens the plight of homeless peasants depicted in the painting to the problems that shipping is facing due to the immigration crisis.
It was a message that shipping folk gathered in the 16th Century chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia (the Holy Mountain of Mercy) seemed to take to their hearts.
