Caravaggio (1571-1610) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) c.1607 Oil on canvas, 116 x 140 cm Palacio Real, Madrid The painting is in good condition after being restored by Patrimonio Nacional in 2015. It…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Vocazione dei santi Pietro e Andrea (Calling of Saints Andrew and Peter) c.1602–1604 Oil on canvas, 140.1 x 176 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London Christ gestures ahead while turning back to the brothers Simon (later Peter) and Andrew,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Cattura di Cristo (Taking of Christ) c.1602 Oil on canvas, 133 x 171 cm Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa Stolen in July 2008, it was recovered -badly damaged- in 2010 by German police in Berlin. The…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di Maffeo Barberini (Portrait of Pope Urban VIII) c.1598 Oil on canvas, 124 x 90 cm Private collection, Firenze See also: • Urbanus VIII (Papa)
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…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di Alof de Wignacourt (Alof de Wignacourt and his Page) c.1608 Oil on canvas, 194 x 134 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Wignacourt, Alof de (1547-1622)
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…