Tag: Italia

Salomè con la testa del Battista (c.1609-1610)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist) c.1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 106.7 cm National Gallery, London The story of the death of Saint John the Baptist is related in the Gospel…

Flagellazione di Cristo (c.1606)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Flagellazione di Cristo (Flagellation of Christ) c.1606 Oil on canvas, 134 x 175.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts owes this work, one of its masterpieces, to a highly inspired and relatively late purchase made…

Museo di Capodimonte (Napoli)

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)

Napoli (Italia)

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

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

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…

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 natural…