Daily except Thurs afternoon 7.30am-12.30pm & 3.30-7pm. At the bottom of Via della Scrofa, the French national church of San Luigi dei Francesi is another church in the vicinity of the Pantheon that is worth a look, mainly for the works by Caravaggio that it numbers amongst its collection. In the last chapel on the left are three paintings: the Calling of St Matthew, in which Christ points to Matthew, who is illuminated by a shaft of sunlight; Matthew visited by an angel as he writes the Gospel; and the saint’s martyrdom. Caravaggio’s first public commission, these paintings were actually rejected at first, partly on grounds of indecorum, and it took considerable reworking by the artist before they were finally accepted.