Caravaggio After Dark

At the height of his celebrity, more than 400 years ago, Caravaggio stabbed and killed a man in a street fight. Fleeing the law, he spent the next, and final, four years of his life on the run. This is the period brought into focus in the National's immensely popular exhibition, which includes the work Salome Receives the Head of John the Baptist.

Wandering from Naples to Malta to Sicily, he left behind him a trail of paintings, many now too fragile to move. In Malta, he joined the Knights of the Order of St John, but was defrocked after a second brawl, and it was in Sicily that he painted The Raising of Lazarus, the vast altarpiece that dominates this show.

It reveals a wise, refined sensibility - the lighting is relatively muted, the compositions starker, more simplified, the mood austere - and yet it is startlingly compelling.

To celebrate the exhibition's final week, the National stays open until 9pm every night until Friday, and until midnight on Saturday, with live music and a bar each evening.