A storm put the Bacchus painting by Caravaggio at risk this Thursday at the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence. The museum suffered water leaks under the skylight of room 90, where there are also seven paintings from the 18th century. The museum assures that the water only wet the glass, and subsequent checks have ruled out damage to the work. "The intense rains splashed the Bacchus display case, but we have not found any impact on any work in the room,” explained the management of the Italian museum.

I find it extremely foolish to renounce an artist's work because of the life that artist has led, and miss out on it, or, in the worst case, encourage others to miss out. Knowing the artist helps us understand the work, but, at the moment of creation, the artist—just like us when we consume his work—is situated in another realm. The world of creation is, by the way, a place of stricter moral rigor than life itself. Vargas Llosa, for example, so painfully anti-Catalan, wrote some of the best essays you will find on the subject.Strap.