The Other Side Of You - Facts

 The thing that brings Elizabeth to open up to Davey is Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus. The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus.

We learn that there is a similar painting by Caravaggio. Caravaggio painted another version of the Supper at Emmaus (now in the Brera, Milan) in 1606. By comparison, the gestures of figures are far more restrained, making presence more important than performance.

When Thomas told Elizabeth that he was moving to MIlan, they were seeing the painting "The Death of the Virgin". Death of the Virgin (1606) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio depicting the death of the Virgin Mary. It is part of the permanent collection of the Musée du Louvre, in Paris.

Another painting that Elizabeth talks about is Caravaggio's David. David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio. It is housed in the Galleria Borghese.

Caravaggio was charged with murder. Caravaggio developed a considerable name as an artist and as a violent, touchy and provocative man. He killed Ranuccio Tommasoni in a brawl, which led to a death sentence for murder and forced him to flee to Naples. 

Davey goes to see Caravaggio's The Calling of St Matthew in Rome. The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. 

When Thomas and Elizabeth go to Rome, they visit the Pantheon. The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church in Rome. It was built on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – AD 14); then, after the original burnt down, the present building was ordered by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated c. AD 126. 

They stand before the statue of the elephant, which impresses Elizabeth. Elephant and Obelisk is a statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was unveiled in 1667 in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome, adjacent to the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it stands today.

The poet Keats died in Rome, and Elizabeth and Thomas make reference to his death and burial in Rome. John Keats died of consumption in Rome on 23 February 1821. His body was buried in the city's Protestant Cemetery.

Keats' companion was Severn. Joseph Severn (7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. Severn nursed Keats until his death on 23 February 1821, three months after they had arrived in Rome. 

Davey mentions Freud's disciple, Lou Andreas-Salome. Lou Andreas-Salomé (12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family.

Davey, whose speciality is suicide, talks about Socrates's death by hemlock. Socrates died in Athens in 399 BC after a trial for impiety and the corruption of the young. He spent his last day in prison among friends and followers who offered him a route to escape, which he refused. He died the next morning, in accordance with his sentence, after drinking poison hemlock.

Elizabeth lived in Gerrards Cross with her husband. Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire.