Madrid's new museum is a modern mecca for old-world art lovers
Briefly

A distinctly feminine Archangel Michael brandishes a flaming sword and attempts, as he has for the past 331 years, to trample the living hell out of a forlorn devil.Close by, an enormous riderless white horse, corralled on to canvas by Diego Velazquez sometime in the 1630s, rears up, as Caravaggio's Salome, swathed in a blood-red cloak, proffers passersby the freshly severed head of John the Baptist.
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