Merisi, Michelangelo

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Basic data

  1. Caravaggio Alternative Names
  2. September 29, 1571 in Mailand
  3. July 18, 1610 in Porto Ercole
  4. Maler
  5. Mailand, Rom, Neapel, Malta, Sizilien

Iconography

Chalk portrait of Caravaggio, c. 1621 (Source: Wikimedia)
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Source: Wikimedia)
The Musicians, 1595–1596, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Source: Wikimedia)
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (c. 1595), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (Source: Wikimedia)
The Lute Player (Hermitage version), c. 1600, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (commissioned by Francesco Maria del Monte) (Source: Wikimedia)
Medusa, c. 1597, Uffizi, Florence (Source: Wikimedia)
Narcissus at the Source, 1597–1599, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. Without recourse to flying angels, parting clouds or other artifice, Caravaggio portrays the instant conversion of St Matthew, the moment on which his destiny will turn, by means of a beam of light and the pointing finger of Jesus. (Source: Wikimedia)
Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1599–1602, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (Ecclesiastical Version, 1601), private collection, Florence, Italy (Source: Wikimedia)
Death of the Virgin, 1601–1606, Louvre, Paris (Source: Wikimedia)
Amor Vincit Omnia, 1601–1602, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Caravaggio shows Cupid prevailing over all human endeavors: war, music, science, government. (Source: Wikimedia)
Saint Jerome Writing, c. 1605–1606, Galleria Borghese, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
Map of Caravaggio's travels (Source: Wikimedia)
The Seven Works of Mercy, 1606–1607, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples (Source: Wikimedia)
The Beheading of Saint John (1608) by Caravaggio (Saint John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta) (Source: Wikimedia)
The Raising of Lazarus and the Adoration of the Shepherds, Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy (Source: Wikimedia)
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Royal Palace of Madrid (Source: Wikimedia)
David with the Head of Goliath, 1609–1610, Galleria Borghese, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
Fillide Melandroni (Source: Wikimedia)
Boy with a Basket of Fruit, 1593–1594, oil on canvas, 67 cm × 53 cm (26 in × 21 in), Galleria Borghese, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
Sacred Love Versus Profane Love (1602–03), by Giovanni Baglione. Intended as an attack on his hated enemy, Caravaggio, it shows a winged male youth with an arrow, most likely a representation of Eros, the god associated with Aphrodite and sexual (i.e., profane) love, on one side, a devil with Caravaggio's face on the other, and between an angel representing pure, meaning non-erotic or sacred, love. (Source: Wikimedia)
Supper at Emmaus, 1601, oil on canvas, 139 cm × 195 cm (55 in × 77 in), National Gallery, London. Self-portrait of Caravaggio as the figure at the top left. (Source: Wikimedia)
The Taking of Christ, 1602, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. The chiaroscuro shows through on the faces and armour even in the absence of a visible shaft of light. The figure on the extreme right is a self-portrait. (Source: Wikimedia)
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1601, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
Old Woman and Boy with Candles by Rubens (Source: Wikimedia)
The Entombment of Christ, (1602–1603), Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
The Denial of Saint Peter (1610), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (Source: Wikimedia)
Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1601, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome (Source: Wikimedia)
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, 1600 (Source: Wikimedia)

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