Despite that and despite his often brutal naturalism, Caravaggio's works faithfully preserve the discipline, harmony, monumentalness and pathos of composition, a feature of the classical tradition present from Giotto through Masaccio to Raphael and Michelangelo. His works are pathetic but their pathos is down-to-earth and devoid of rhetoric. The unique appeal of the highlight of the present exhibition - /David with the Head of Goliath/ - lies in its pathos devoid of superfluity, its simplicity and truthfulness, in the merging of classical "Latin tradition" and uncompromising naturalism.