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)

Boy with a Basket of Fruit

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (67 × 53 cm) 1593-1594
- Galleria Borghese (Rome)

Basket of Fruit

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

Young Sick Bacchus

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (67 × 53 cm) c.1593

- Galleria Borghese (Rome)

Bacchus

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

The Cardsharps

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (94 × 131 cm) c.1594

- Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth)

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 Musicians

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (92 x 118 cm) c.1595

- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)

The lead singer is crying his eyes out.

The Lute Player (Hermitage version 2)

- Caravaggio

- oil on canvas (94 × 119 cm) c.1600
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

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

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
- Caravaggio
(Secular Version) oil on canvas (107 × 146 cm) 1602
- Sanssouci (Potsdam)
(Ecclesiastical Version) oil on canvas (118 × 157 cm) 1601
- private collection ( Firenze)

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
- Caravaggio
- oil on canvas (141 × 175 cm) 1606
- Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan)

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)

Caravaggio signed next to the blood.

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:

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

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

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

L (on the left wall)

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

M (above the altar)

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

R (on the right wall)

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

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, not David!

Maybe he hopes that by offering his decapitated head in a painting, he, on the run, can save himself in real life.

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.

Her skin was green, her body bloated under a screaming red dress. The worse was rumored that Caravaggio had taken a drowned where from the morgue and made her into the Madonna.it