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Caravaggio

[Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610]

• Also known as:  Michelangelo Merisi
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Caravage
• Relationships: Caravaggio's students included Juan Bautista Mayno.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Caravaggio at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Conversion of the Magdalen

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Caravaggio

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Lute-Player, ca.1595

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Supper at Emmaus, 1600

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
David With the Head of Goliath, 1606-07

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Madonna of the Rosary, 1606-07

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Caravaggio at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Death of the Virgin, ca.1601-05

Caravaggio in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Caravaggio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
The Musicians, ca.1595 (Zoom)
The Denial of Saint Peter

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
2 paintings online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Caravaggio at the National Gallery, London, UK
Boy bitten by a Lizard
Salome receives the Head of Saint John the Baptist
The Supper at Emmaus


Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, 1604-05 (Zoom)

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
2 works online

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Deposition from the Cross

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
St. John the Baptist, ca.1600

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Entombment of Christ, 1602-04

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, ca.1607

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)  
Maddalena penitente

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto

Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Cardsharps (I Bari)

McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College
The Taking of Christ

Musees de la Ville de Rouen, France (in French)  

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

National Gallery of Australia
Narcissus, ca.1595

National Gallery of Australia
St Francis meditating, 1603

National Gallery of Australia
St John the Bapist, 1606

Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Ukraine
Taking Christ into Custody

Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
8 works online

Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (in Italian)  
Canestra di Frutta

Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (in Italian)  
La Buona Ventura

Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (in Italian)  
San Giovanni Battista

Prado Museum, Madrid (new website, can be quite slow)
David Victorious over Goliath

Prato Museums, Italy (in Italian)  

State Museums of Berlin   NEW!

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, ca.1597

Virtual Uffizi

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy

 
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Caravaggio in the Art Renewal Center

Caravaggio in the Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Saint Jerome

Artonline

Caravaggio at CGFA  

Insecula

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
4 unidentified paintings from a 2001 exhibition

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Unidentified painting from a 2004 exhibition

The Athenaeum  
66 works online by Caravaggio

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  

Aiwaz Panopticon   NEW!

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion

Jetset Image Galleries

Olga's Gallery

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web 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)   NEW!  
Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto (detail), ca.1596

Mistica info (in Italian)   NEW!  
Maddalena penitente, 1594-95

Mistica info (in Italian)   NEW!  
San Francesco in estasi (detail), ca.1595

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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
"Caravaggio, and the Light of Truth," article by Roderick Conway Morris

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
St John the Baptist, 1602

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Medusa, ca.1598

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Boy Bitten by a Lizard, 1595-1600

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Even After Four Centuries, Caravaggio's a Knockout

  
Caravaggio: Doubting Thomas





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Caravaggio: The Lute Player (detail)
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St. Jerome, 1605-06
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The Fortune Teller, c. 1594
The Fortune Teller, c. 1594


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Bacchus, c.1597
Bacchus, c.1597

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