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…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura (The Fortune Teller) 1596–1597 Oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm Musei Capitolini, Roma Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura c.1595 Musée du Louvre, Paris La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure probably 1630s Metropolitan Museum…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura (The Fortune Teller) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 99 x 131 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura 1596–1597 Musei Capitolini, Roma La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure probably 1630s…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di un cavaliere di Malta, Fra Antonio Martelli (Portrait of a Knight of Malta) 1608 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 95.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze See also: • Martelli, Antonio (1534-1618)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David with the Head of Goliath) c.1600–1601 Oil on poplar, 91.2 x 138.5 x 2.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Caravaggio succinctly summarizes the biblical story of David’s victorious battle against the giant Philistine general…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David with the Head of Goliath) 1606–1607 or 1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 125 x 101 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This painting was executed in Naples, where Caravaggio was in exile, following his flight from…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Decollazione del Battista (Beheading of Saint John the Baptist) 1608 Oil on canvas, 361 x 520 cm St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
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,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Conversione di San Paolo (Conversion of Saint Paul) 1600–1601 Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm Cappella Cerasi, Santa Maria del Popolo, Roma Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) Conversione di San Paolo 1600 Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Roma
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione (Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione) c.1525 Oil on canvas, 124 x 97 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin See also: • Castiglione, Baldassarre (1478-1529)