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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.
The works evoke three major stages in the life of the apostle Saint Matthew: his calling by Jesus Christ (The Calling of St Matthew), his writing of the Gospel guided by an angel (The Inspiration of Saint Matthew), and his martyrdom (The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew). They are still preserved in the Church of St. Louis of the French.
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 Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio) R. Saint Matthew and the Angel (Rembrandt) ... Saint Matthew the Evangelist (Master Theodoric) Santa Maria dei Fossi ...
Calling of Saint Matthew: Rome, Contarelli Chapel: 323 × 343 cm Oil on canvas: 1600: 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 ...
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 ...
Matthew in a painted miniature from a volume of Armenian Gospels dated 1609, held by the Bodleian Library. Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 [5] and Matthew 10:3 [6] as a tax collector (in the New International Version and other translations of the Bible) who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in Capernaum, was called to follow Jesus. [7]