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Caravaggio Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Caravaggio at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan The Conversion of the Magdalen, ca.1598
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia The Lute-Player, ca.1595
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles The Supper at Emmaus, 1600
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See the "Italy 17th – 18th centuries" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Caravaggio at the Louvre Museum, Paris Death of the Virgin, ca.1601-05
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, 1604-05 (Zoom)
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK 2 works online
Vatican Museums, Vatican City Deposition from the Cross
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Galleria Borghese, Rome Narciso
Galleria Borghese, Rome David with the Head of Goliath Madonna of the Palafrenieri St John the Baptist in the Desert
Galleria Borghese, Rome Giuditta che taglia la testa di Oloferne
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  Riposo durante la Fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt)
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  Maddalena Penitente (Penitent Magdalene)
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts The Taking of Christ
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  La Flagellation du Christ
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Narcissus, ca.1595
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra St Francis meditating, 1603
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra St John the Bapist, 1606
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin The Taking of Christ, 1602
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 8 in order to see Caravaggio's Ecce Homo
Palazzo degli Alberti, Prato, Italy (in Italian) 
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  8 works online
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Virtual Uffizi Medusa
Virtual Uffizi Sacrifice of Isaac Bacchus
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Caravaggio Website about Caravaggio and his paintings
Caravaggio at The Art Renewal Center
Caravaggio at The Artchive 
Caravaggio at The Athenaeum  66 works online by Caravaggio
Caravaggio in the Web Gallery of Art 
Caravaggio in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian) 
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Caravaggio at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Free Christ Images 
Google Art Project 5 works online
Humanities Web 
Jetset Image Galleries
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  4 unidentified paintings from a 2001 exhibition
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  Unidentified painting from a 2004 exhibition
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation Caravaggio: A Most Romantic Destiny
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Mistica info (in Italian)  Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto (detail), ca.1596
Mistica info (in Italian)  Maddalena penitente, 1594-95
Mistica info (in Italian)  San Francesco in estasi (detail), ca.1595
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Caravaggio  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artcyclopedia "The Other Michelangelo"
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "Caravaggio, and the Light of Truth," article by Roderick Conway Morris
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Swindlers' paradise", 2001 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on St John the Baptist, 1602
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Boy Bitten by a Lizard, 1595-1600
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Medusa, ca.1598
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Prince of darkness", 2005 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard "The other Michelangelo gets a go", 2001 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer "Even After Four Centuries, Caravaggio's a Knockout", article by Hilton Kramer
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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