This work, created using the “tableaux vivants” technique, is extremely simple yet highly visually striking. On stage are just a few simple elements—fabrics of various colors and thicknesses, everyday objects—with which the actors compose 21 “canvases” before the audience’s eyes. The scenes thus created are presented as if in a painter’s studio; the costumes and rich drapery take shape in a matter of moments thanks to the skill of the actors, who serve simultaneously as models, set designers, and prop masters for the production. The action freezes as if in a flash of magnesium light, in the instant of a “perfect” gesture, conveying the emotion of the painting. The extreme iconographic accuracy and the expressive power of the actors’ bodies and faces, captured in the characteristic side lighting, fully convey that “poetry of reality” which is the hallmark of Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s work.