Hang Around the World: Painting #038

Caravaggio

(1571–1610, Italian Baroque)

Portrait of Caravaggio
- Ottavio Leoni (Italian, 1578-1630)
- chalk, c.1621
- Biblioteca Marucelliana (Florence)

Basket of Fruit
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (46 × 64.5 cm) c.1599
- Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan)

Madonna of the Rosary
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas altarpiece (364.5 × 249.5 cm) 1607
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

(L) Saint Dominic (holding rosaries) and (R) Saint Peter Martyr of Verona

The Flaggelation of Christ
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (286 × 213 cm) 1607
- Museo di Capodimonte (Naples)

At the bottom, a whip is being made.

The Entombment of Christ
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (300 × 203 cm) 1603-04
- Pinacoteca Vaticana (Vatican)

- one of his most admired altarpieces

Supper at Emmaus

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (140 × 196 cm) 1601

- National Gallery (London)

Having been told the disappearance of Jesus's corpse from his grave, his disciples were overjoyed to see Jesus again in person.
(Caravaggio included himself as the figure on the top left.)

Supper at Emmaus

Crucifixion of St. Peter
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (230 x 51 cm) 1600
- Santa Maria del Popolo (Rome)

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (370 x 520 cm) 1608
- St. John's Co-Cathedral (Valletta)

The Seven Works of Mercy
- Caravaggio
Year1607Medium
- oil on canvas (390 × 260 cm) 1607
- Pio Monte della Misericordia (Naples)

San Luigi dei Francesi (The Church of St. Louis of the French)

Its Contarelli Chapel contains a cycle of paintings by Caravaggio in 1599–1600 about the life of St. Matthew. This includes the three world-renowned canvases of

The Calling of St Matthew (on the left wall),

The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (above the altar), and

The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (on the right wall).

(on the left wall)

The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (322 × 340 cm) 1599-1600
- San Luigi dei Francesi (Rome)

(above the altar)

The Inspiration of Saint Matthew
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (292 × 186 cm) 1602
- San Luigi dei Francesi (Rome)

(on the right wall)

The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (323 × 343 cm) 1599-1600
- San Luigi dei Francesi (Rome)

Bacchus
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (95 × 85 cm) c.1596
- Uffizi (Florence)

The Fortune Teller (second version)
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (93 × 131 cm) c.1595
- Louvre (Paris)

Under the pretense of palm reading, she is thiefing his ring.

The Lute Player (Hermitage version)
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (94 × 119 cm) c.1600
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (195 x 134 cm) 1607-08
- Louvre (Paris)

Sleeping Cupid
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (72 × 105 cm) 1608
- Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina (Florence)

Caravaggio was then admitted to the Order of the Knights of Saint John (the Knights of Malta), and allowed to carry a sword.

Saint Jerome Writing
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (117 × 157 cm) c.1607-08
- St John's Co-Cathedral (Valletta)

The beheading seems effortless...

Judith Beheading Holofernes

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (145 x 195 cm) 1598-99

- Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome)

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Sacrifice of Isaac
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (104 × 135 cm) 1603
- Uffizi (Florence)

David with the Head of Goliath
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (125 × 101 cm) c.1610
- Galleria Borghese (Rome)

Caravaggio painted himself as Goliath!

Death of the Virgin

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (369 × 245 cm) 1601-06

- Louvre (Paris)

The nuns of the sponsoring convent (Santa Maria della Scala) returned this painting because the event was not depicted as holy and graceful as always expected.