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Caravaggio's innovations inspired Baroque painting, but the latter incorporated the drama of his chiaroscuro without the psychological realism. [dubious – discuss] The style evolved and fashions changed, and Caravaggio fell out of favour. In the 20th century, interest in his work revived, and his importance to the development of Western art ...
That lost Caravaggio painting was only known up to that date by a presumed copy of it by the Flemish painter Louis Finson, who had shared a studio with Caravaggio in Naples. [100] The French government imposed an export ban on the newly discovered painting while tests were carried out to establish whether it was an authentic painting by Caravaggio.
Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) St John the Baptist at a Spring; Saint Matthew and the Angel; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, Madrid) The Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio) Still Life with Fruit (Caravaggio) Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, London)
Completed in 1608 in Malta, the painting had been commissioned by the Knights of Malta as an altarpiece; [1] [10] it was the largest altarpiece which Caravaggio would ever paint. [11] It still hangs in St. John's Co-Cathedral, for which it was commissioned and where Caravaggio himself was inducted and briefly served as a knight.
The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus. Originally this painting was commissioned and paid for by Ciriaco Mattei, brother of cardinal Girolamo Mattei.
The paintings in the Contarelli Chapel form a group of three large-format canvases painted by Caravaggio between 1599 and 1602, initially commissioned by Cardinal Matteo Contarelli for the Church of St. Louis of the French (San Luigi dei Francesi) in Rome, and eventually honored after his death by his executors.
David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio.It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. [1] The painting, which was in the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese [a] in 1650, [3] has been dated as early as 1605 and as late as 1609–1610, with more recent scholars tending towards the former.
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.