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The Seven Works of Mercy (Italian: Sette opere di Misericordia), also known as The Seven Acts of Mercy, is an oil painting by Italian painter Caravaggio, circa 1607.The painting depicts the seven corporal works of mercy in traditional Catholic belief, which are a set of compassionate acts concerning the material needs of others.
The latter, at the high altar, houses Caravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy. There are also paintings by Luca Giordano , Carlo Sellitto , Fabrizio Santafede , Battistello Caracciolo and others. The noblemen of the brotherhood at Pio Monte della Misericordia were looking for painters "to give permanent visual expression to their sense of charitable ...
The pictorial representation of the works of mercy began in the 12th century. The Seven Works of Mercy by Caravaggio, 1606/07 (Naples) The Master of Alkmaar painted the polyptych of the Seven works of mercy (c. 1504) for the Church of Saint Lawrence in Alkmaar, Netherlands. His series of wooden panel paintings show the works of mercy, with ...
The painting was likely done between the 8th of January and mid-July 1607, that is between the completion of the Seven Works of Mercy and the departure of the painter for Malta. Something must have gone wrong with the original commission as the painting was very soon on the market and bought by a Flemish consortium that included Rubens.
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Santi Buglioni, Pistoia, Spedale del Ceppo Santi Buglioni, Pistoia, Spedale del Ceppo. Undoubtedly his most remarkable and famous work, which far exceeds in importance all his remaining activity, is the frieze with the Works of Mercy, in glazed and coloured terracotta, on the façade of the Spedale del Ceppo in Pistoia.
Master of Alkmaar (1475–1515), 2 paintings : The Seven Works of Mercy, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ; Master of Ávila (active last quarter of 15th century), 1 painting : Nativity, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid ; Master of the Female Half-Lengths (1530–1540), 6 paintings : St Catherine, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk (Alkmaar) The Master of Alkmaar was a Dutch painter active around Alkmaar at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Their name is derived from a series of panel paintings from the church of Saint Lawrence in that city, dated to 1504 and showing the Seven Works of Mercy; they are currently in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.