Tag: red

San Girolamo (c.1606)

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…

San Giovanni Battista (1609-1610)

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…

La Madonna dei Palafrenieri (1605)

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…

San Giovanni Battista (1604-1606)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) 1604–1606 Oil on canvas, 94 x 131 cm Galleria Corsini, Roma The authenticity of this painting has long been doubted, although there are other versions of the same subject created by Caravaggio…

Giuditta e Oloferne (c.1599)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Giuditta e Oloferne (Judith Beheading Holofernes) c.1599 Oil on canvas, 145 x 195 cm Palazzo Barberini, Roma Three characters and a red cloth in the background: few elements, capable of orchestrating a true theater of opposites. Darkness and light,…

Fernando el Católico (c.1848)

Montañés y Pérez, Bernardino (1825-1893) Fernando el Católico c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 141 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic (1452-1516). The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned…