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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]
Caravaggio's paintings began, obsessively, to depict severed heads, often his own, at this time. Good modern accounts are to be found in Peter Robb's M and Helen Langdon's Caravaggio: A Life. A theory relating the death to Renaissance notions of honour and symbolic wounding has been advanced by art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon. [45]
Among the painters influenced by Caravaggio, apart from the Utrecht Caravaggists, are Orazio Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Georges de la Tour, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jusepe de Ribera and Johann Ulrich Loth. Caravaggio's influences are also evident in paintings by Jan Vermeer, Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán.
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.
Completed in 1608 in Malta, the painting had been commissioned by the Knights of Malta as an altarpiece; [1] [10] it was the largest altarpiece which Caravaggio would ever paint. [11] It still hangs in St. John's Co-Cathedral, for which it was commissioned and where Caravaggio himself was inducted and briefly served as a knight.
Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) St John the Baptist at a Spring; Saint Matthew and the Angel; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, Madrid) The Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio) Still Life with Fruit (Caravaggio) Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, London)
The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus. Originally this painting was commissioned and paid for by Ciriaco Mattei, brother of cardinal Girolamo Mattei.
The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him.It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains.
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