Antonello Losito, the owner of tourism company Southern Visions Travel, agreed.
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The museum in Messina lent both of its Caravaggios the most valuable works in its collection in return for an Antonello da Messina next year.
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There's Antonello da Messina's skeptical young man with thick curling hair and a black cappuccio (1478) and Laurana's nuanced marble of the introspective bluestocking Beatrice of Aragon (c. 1474-75).
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