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The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (Italian: Martirio di San Matteo; 1599–1600) is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.It is located in the Contarelli Chapel of the church of the French congregation San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it hangs opposite The Calling of Saint Matthew and beside the altarpiece The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, both by Caravaggio.
Self-portrait by Caravaggio (detail from Martyrdom of Saint Matthew). After receiving his initial training in Milan, Caravaggio arrived in Rome in the early 1590s, perhaps in the summer of 1592, [5] aged around twenty. He passed through several studios, working on a variety of small-scale productions, including flowers and fruit.
Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew hangs opposite The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. While the Martyrdom was probably the first to be started, the Calling was, by report, the first to be completed. [ citation needed ] The commission for these two lateral paintings — the Calling and the Martyrdom — is dated July 1599, and final payment was ...
The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio, 1599-1600 The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio, 1599-1600. Cesari finished the vault by 1593, but then became occupied with papal commissions; Cobaert produced a statue that was rejected, in part because it represented the Apostle without the traditional angel.
The two works making up the commission, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and The Calling of Saint Matthew, delivered in 1600, were an immediate sensation. Thereafter he never lacked commissions or patrons. The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. Without recourse to flying angels, parting clouds ...
It is one of three Caravaggio canvases in the chapel: hanging between the larger earlier canvases of The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew, and The Calling of Saint Matthew. This was not an easy commission for Caravaggio, and at least two of the three paintings had to be either replaced or repainted to satisfy his patron, the Cardinal Del Monte.
Martyrdom of Saint Matthew: Rome, Contarelli Chapel: 323 × 343 cm Oil on canvas: 1600? 1609?: Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence: Palermo, Church of San Lorenzo: 268 × 197 cm Oil on canvas: Stolen in 1969 1600: Conversion of Saint Paul: Rome, Odescalchi Balbi Collection: 237 × 189 cm Oil on cypress wood: 1601: Crucifixion of ...
The Calling of Saint Matthew; Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Polenov) F. ... The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio) R. Saint Matthew and the Angel ...