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Old Woman and Boy with Candles by Rubens (Mauritshuis, The Hague) Caravaggio's brief stay in Naples produced a notable school of Neapolitan Caravaggisti, including Battistello Caracciolo and Carlo Sellitto. The Caravaggisti movement there ended with a terrible outbreak of plague in 1656, but the Spanish connection—Naples was a possession of ...
Painting Year Name City, Gallery Dimensions Technique Notes c. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling Fruit: Florence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi: 75.5 × 64.4 cm Oil on canvas: One of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work [2]
A notary's copy of the contract between Caravaggio and Cerasi. The two lateral paintings of the Cerasi Chapel were commissioned in September 1600 by Monsignor Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII who purchased the chapel from the Augustinian friars on 8 July 1600 and entrusted Carlo Maderno to rebuild the small edifice in Baroque style. [1]
Saint Jerome Writing is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1607 or 1608, housed in the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. It can be compared with Caravaggio's earlier version of the same subject in the Borghese Gallery in Rome.
Despite Caravaggio's speed (including a second, radically different version of his St. Matthew and the Angel), two years elapsed between the installation of the two side canvases (1600) and the altar (1602), echoing the long delays in completing the building work. Tired of waiting for some thirty years, the church's priests harbored a certain ...
The Sacrifice of Isaac is the title of two paintings from c. 1598 - 1603 depicting the sacrifice of Isaac.The paintings could be painted by the Italian master Caravaggio (1571–1610) but there is also strong evidence that they may have been the work of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, a talented early member of the Caravaggio following who is known to have been in Spain about 1617–1619.
For Del Monte, Caravaggio painted a second version of The Fortune Teller, copied from the Giustiniani but with certain changes. The undifferentiated background of the 1594 version becomes a real wall broken by the shadows of a half-drawn curtain and a window sash, and the figures more completely fill the space and defining it in three dimensions.
David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio.It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. [1] The painting, which was in the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese [a] in 1650, [3] has been dated as early as 1605 and as late as 1609–1610, with more recent scholars tending towards the former.