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The Vatican Deposition (Entombment) is completed for Chiesa Nuova around 1603–1604 as Caravaggio’s Vittrice chapel altarpiece

Oratorian Rome; Vittrice family chapel funding after Pietro Vittrice’s death. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Later Napoleonic seizure and Vatican Pinacoteca display are carriers, not the painting act.

Context

Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Oratorian Rome; Vittrice family chapel funding after Pietro Vittrice’s death.

Why it matters

A parish altarpiece for collective mourning liturgy is a cohesion path.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Caravaggio

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    Named painter of the Vittrice Deposition. Chapel patrons share the commission.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe Vatican Deposition (Entombment) is completed for Chiesa Nuova around 1603–1604 as Caravaggio’s Vittrice chapel altarpiece
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 September 1603 · verified

    A dated church Entombment altarpiece is a limited cohesion path.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Vatican Museums — Caravaggio, DepositionMusei Vaticani · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — CaravaggioEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Vatican Museums and Britannica date the Deposition/Entombment painted for the Vittrice chapel in Santa Maria in Vallicella to the early 1600s, with payment notes around 1604 calling it new.

Musei Vaticani’s Deposition page and Britannica independently describe the Chiesa Nuova commission.

Established: ~1603–1604 Entombment for Chiesa Nuova. Not established: that later museum hanging is the act.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCaravaggio
  2. contributed toFactThe Vatican Deposition (Entombment) is completed for Chiesa Nuova around 1603–1604 as Caravaggio’s Vittrice chapel altarpiece
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). The Vatican Deposition (Entombment) is completed for Chiesa Nuova around 1603–1604 as Caravaggio’s Vittrice chapel altarpiece. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-entombment-1603

https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-entombment-1603

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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