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Where to see Caravaggio paintings in Rome
Caravaggio paintings can be found in churches and palaces across Rome.
The masterful paintings of 16th-century artist Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), better known as Caravaggio, continue to fascinate more than 400 years after his death.
The artist's paintings combine a gritty, realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, and make dramatic use of chiaroscuro.
Caravaggio is also remembered as a wild, violent character who fled Rome after receiving a death sentence for killing a man in a dual.
The artist died in 1610 in Porte Ercole, in mysterious circumstances, aged 38.
Today Rome hosts about 25 Caravaggio masterpieces that can be viewed by the public: several can be seen for free in churches, others as part of a visit to some of the city's most important art collections in palaces and museums.
Basilica di S. Agostino, Via di S. Eustachio 19.
A Caravaggio painting can be enjoyed for free at the Basilica di S. Agostino in the Campo Marzio area of Rome's historic centre. Open daily 07.30-12.00 / 16.00-19.30. For details see website.
Madonna di Loreto - Pilgrim's Madonna(1604-1606)
Basilica of S. Maria del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo.
The Cerasi Chapel in the Basilica of S. Maria de
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The Conversion of Saint Paul (Caravaggio)
Painting by Caravaggio
This article is about Caravaggio's painting in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection. For his painting in Santa Maria del Popolo, see Conversion on the Way to Damascus.
| The Conversion of Saint Paul | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Caravaggio |
| Year | 1600/1601 |
| Type | Oil on cypress wood |
| Dimensions | 237 cm × 189 cm (93 in × 74 in) |
| Location | Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome |
The Conversion of Saint Paul (or Conversion of Saul), by the Italian painter Caravaggio, is housed in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection of Rome. It is one of at least two paintings by Caravaggio of the same subject, the Conversion of Paul. Another is The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus, in the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo.
Background
[edit]The painting, together with a Crucifixion of Saint Peter, was commissioned by Monsignor (later Cardinal) Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII, in September 1600. According to Caravaggio's early biographer Giovanni Baglione, both paintings were rejected by Cerasi, and replaced by the second versions which hang in the chapel today. The dates of completion and rejection are determined from the death of Cerasi in May
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Cerasi Chapel
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