Tag: Italia

Museo di Capodimonte

Founded: 1757 Location: Via Miano 2, 80131 Napoli Website: https://capodimonte.cultura.gov.it/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: • Museums | Napoli (Italia)

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Napoli (Italia)

Museums: • Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano: Via Toledo 185, Napoli • Museo di Capodimonte: Via Miano 2, 80131 Napoli Churches: • Pio Monte della Misericordia: Via dei Tribunali 253, Napoli Naples in Art: Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Naval Battle in the Gulf…

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Fillide Melandroni (c.1597)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Fillide Melandroni (Portrait of a Courtesan) c.1597, destroyed in 1945 Oil on canvas, 66.8 x 53 cm Bode Museum, Berlin (former Kaiser Friedrich Museum) See also: • Fillide Melandroni

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Marta e Maria Maddalena (c.1598)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Marta e Maria Maddalena (Martha and Mary Magdalene) c.1598 Oil and tempera on canvas, 100 x 134.5 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit “There is a Michelangelo da Caravaggio who is doing extraordinary things in Rome.” This quote by a…

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Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (c.1598-1599)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (Saint Catherine of Alexandria) c.1598–1599 Oil on canvas, 173 x 133 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid   This painting was almost certainly commissioned in Rome by Caravaggio’s first patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte. Captured in a strikingly…

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David con la testa di Golia (c.1600)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David and Goliath) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 91.3 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compared with the many other treatments of this well-known biblical episode, the scene depicted in the Prado picture is…

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Palazzo Rosso (Genova)

Completed: 1677 Location: Via Garibaldi 18, 16124 Genova Website: http://www.museidigenova.it/it/museo/palazzo-rosso Collection: • Caravaggio (1571-1610): Ecce Homo (c.1605) See also: • Genova (Italia) | Museums | Palaces

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