Actors from the Italian theater company Ludovica Rambelli Teatro recreate paintings by Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, or, more accurately, they’re recreating how Caravaggio created scenes to paint with live models. The performance is called La conversione di un cavallo, 23 Tableaux Vivants dalle opere di Caravaggio, or Tableaux Vivants. It’s set to Lux aeterna, the final section of Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart’s Requiem.

The number of paintings depicted in the performance

The paintings in the video are 

1. The Entombment of Christ

2.  Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy

3. Crucifixion of Saint Peter

4.  The Beheading of St John the Baptist

5.  Judith Beheading Holofernes

6.  Flagellation of Christ

7.  The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew

8.  Annunciation

9.  Rest on the Flight into Egypt

10. Narcissus

11. The Raising of Lazarus

12. Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy

13. Bacchus