An iconic visual rendering of perhaps the world’s most famous underdog story comes to Los Angeles this week. David with the Head of Goliath, by famed Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio (1571-1610), will be on view at the Getty Centeralongside two of the artist’s other masterpieces.

In the work, a young man with his chest half-draped in a billowing white shirt holds a sword in his right hand and a severed head of an older man in his left. The young man gazes at the head, forlorn, while light streams across his left shoulder and the right side of his face. The dark background, in stark contrast, lends the painting a sense of theater.