Tag: light

Martirio di Sant’Orsola (1610)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Martirio di Sant’Orsola (Martyrdom of Saint Ursula) 1610 Oil on canvas, 143 x 180 cm Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Napoli According to legend, Saint Ursula traveled with eleven thousand virgins to Cologne, where the chief of the Huns besieging…

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Madonna di Loreto (c.1604)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Madonna di Loreto, Madonna dei Pellegrini (Pilgrim’s Madonna) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 260 x 150 cm Cappella Cavalletti, Sant’Agostino in Campo Marzio, Roma See also: • Loreto (Italia)

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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…

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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…

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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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