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) San Giovanni Battista (John the Baptist) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 172.5 x 104.5 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
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) San Girolamo scrivente (Saint Jerome Writing) 1607–1608 Oil on canvas, 117 x 157 cm St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1605 Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 101.5 cm Museu de Montserrat, Barcelona
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony c.1530s Oil on panel, 62.8 x 39.7 cm Private Collection See also: • John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503-1554)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Madonna del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary) c.1601 Oil on canvas, 364.5 × 249.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Our Lady invites St. Dominic to distribute rosaries to the people. St Peter Martyr points to the source of all graces,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1606 Oil on canvas, 116 x 153 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma According to Giovanni Pietro Bellori, the painting was made by the artist for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a sophisticated and avid collector, known among his contemporaries…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista (St John the Baptist) 1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 152 x 125 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The painting was one of the group of paintings that the artist took with him on the return journey by sea from…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Madonna dei Palafrenieri (The Madonna dei Palafrenieri / Madonna and Child with Saint Anne) 1605 Oil on canvas, 292 x 211 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The painting was commissioned in 1605 by the members of the powerful Palafrenieri archconfraternity…