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Caravaggio: Saint Matthew and the Angel

Artist



Alternative names	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Birth name: Michelangelo Merisi Italiano: Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio
Description	Italian painter
Date of birth/death	29 September 1571	18 July 1610 / 1610
Location of birth/death	Milan	Porto Ercole
Work period	1593 - 1610
Work location	Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily
Authority file	: Q42207 VIAF: 87679282 ISNI: 0000000121028836 ULAN: 500115312 LCCN: n50000558 NLA: 35025773 WorldCat

Title

German:

Der Evangelist Matthäus

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Part of

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Saint Mathieu et l'ange

Depicted people

Matthew the Apostle

Date

1602

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 232 cm (91.3 in); width: 183 cm (72 in)

Collection

destroyed painting

Accession number

365 (Gemäldegalerie)

Place of creation

Italy

Object history

1815: in collection of Frederick William III of Prussia
1945: destroyed

Exhibition history

Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi
Bode Museum, 1945

Notes

Tableau détruit lors d'un bombardement pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il n'en reste que quelques photographies en noir et blanc.

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CARAVAGGIO

(b. 1573, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole)

St Matthew and the Angel 1602 Oil on canvas, 232 x 183 cm Formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin

The picture shows the first version of the St Matthew and the Angel, executed for the Contarelli Chapel in the San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. This painting was rejected, and the artist made another one which still stands over the altar today. The first version of the St Matthew and the Angel was purchased by Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani and then ended up in Berlin, where it was destroyed in the Second World War; no color reproduction exists.

The slow-witted figure of St Matthew, who is naked below below his knees and elbows, and dressed in an ordinary cowl, acquires no real dignity even though the mantle laid over his folding-chair. With his eyes wide open, and with heavy hands, he peers into the thick volumes on his knee. It is not easy to believe he can write. His angel has the greatest difficulty in leading his untrained hand to put the word of God into letters, which are far too big. In doing so, the angel inclines his charming figure, whose shape can clearly be seen beneath his light garment. And so can his androgynous face and long locks of hair, in contrast to the rough bald skull of St Matthew. Against the almost black background, which has been trimmed on the left and at the top, we see the exquisite white of his enormous wings.

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Author: CARAVAGGIO Title: St Matthew and the Angel Time-line: 1551-1600 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: religious

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