Anti-gay millionaire bankrolls Caravaggio spectacular: "[Caravaggio], who was alleged to have kept a boy lover and slept with a dagger by his bed, scandalised the Roman Catholic church's senior hierarchy as much for his hedonistic ways as his shocking depictions of the Virgin Mary, for which he used his prostitute muse as a model.
But what the crowds are unlikely to appreciate is that the acclaimed exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous donation of a reclusive US millionaire who bankrolled a fundamentalist religious movement founded by a man who endorsed the execution of homosexuals and adulterers...
'It's ironic that one of the major funders of the exhibition - about which there has been such interesting comment about Caravaggio's realism, use of real life models and homo-erotic content - should also be one of the major funders of the [American Anglican Council],' said Reverend Nicholas Holtam, vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields church next to the National Gallery."
