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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.
Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he initially doubted the resurrection of Jesus Christ when he was told of it (as is related in the Gospel of John); he later confessed his faith ("My lord and my God") on seeing the places where the wounds appeared still fresh on the holy body of Jesus after the Crucifixion of Jesus. While ...
Giovanni Baglione mentioned in 1642 in his report (p. 137) that the Mattei family[3] was the patron of this Trieste Version of Doubting Thomas. [16] Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was the guest of the brothers Ciriaco Mattei and Cardinal Girolamo Mattei in the latter's family palace (today Caetani in Via delle Botteghe Oscure, Roma) from ...
The examination of the wounds by "Doubting Thomas" the Apostle, reported only in the Gospel of John at John 20:24–29, was the focus of much commentary and often depicted in art, where the subject has the formal name of the Incredulity of Thomas. [citation needed]
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, a painting by Francesco Salviati; The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, a painting by Matthias Stom; Christ and St. Thomas, a bronze statue by Andrea del Verrocchio; Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of St. Thomas), a painting by Adriaen van der Werff formerly in the Hope Collection of Pictures
In the story the Apostle Thomas is known as Doubting Thomas. [3] The work of art is a depiction of the historic event. Countless Greek and Italian painters have artistically depicted the dramatic event. Caravaggio created a notable depiction known as The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (Caravaggio). Two works of art are similar to the painting.
Again, an apparently denigrating portrayal in the "Doubting Thomas" story may either be taken literally, or as a kind of mock "comeback" to Thomas' logia: not as an outright censuring of Thomas, but an improving gloss, as Thomas' thoughts about the spirit and body are not dissimilar from those presented elsewhere in John.
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