Pope Francis visit the Baptistery in Florence

Pope francesco in Giovanni Baptistery in Florence, together with Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, Meets Director Arturo Galansino and the Director of The Art Institute of Chicago in front of the Douglas Druick White Crucifixion of Marc Chagall, emblematic work of interreligious dialogue between Christianity and Judaism, which is part of the great exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi Divine beauty of Van Gogh, Chagall e Fontana (Florence, Palazzo Strozzi 24 September 2015-24 January 2016)
The Holy Father admired and commented with these masterpiece by Marc Chagall that together with Caravaggio is his favorite artist.
The painting, painful evocation of the persecution of Jews, culminating in the "Night of Broken Glass" of 9 November 1938, inside the Baptistery of San Giovanni in dialogue with the mosaics of the '200 the dome and apse, thus representing the unity of the message between the ancient and the modern, the same voltage of the artists of all time for transcendence.