Of all the great Italian painters,
Caravaggio seems to speak most immediately to the modern world.
The most intensely religious painter of his day, his works also reveal a strong, disturbing personality.
Poussin was to think he had come into the world to destroy painting, and he continues to exert a powerful fascination on our own century. Laura Cumming reassesses his life and work in the light of two new studies. And art and subversion meet again as Ewan McGregor plays the disruptive student suspended from art school in a new production of David Halliwell 's Little Malcolm and the Battle against the Eunuchs. Night Waves reports from tonight's opening in London. Producer Anthony Denselow