Oil Painting St John The Baptist from Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Buy Hand Painted Oil Reproduction

A number of paintings have been attributed from time to time to the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) but are no longer generally accepted as genuine. Immensely popular in his own lifetime he fell into neglect almost immediately upon his death with the result that now four hundred years later it s often extremely difficult to distinguish works by the master from copies or from original creations by his most gifted followers. The John the Baptist from Basle has many of the stylistic marks of Caravaggio - the use of deep shadows the isolated youthful Baptist - but is not widely accepted as genuine. A comparison with Carlo Sellitto shows how well the more gifted of Caravaggio s followers absorbed not only the superficial tricks of style but the underlying ethos as well to the point of becoming virtually indistinguishable from the work of the master. The Basle Baptist despite being a very attractive painting in its own right is a quite forthright and traditional piece of Counter-Reformation iconography (the Baptist is holding out roses symbol of the Passion before the sheep representing Christ s future sacrifice) and has none of the deep pathos and ambiguously mingled sensuality and spirituality that Caravaggio brought to his long contemplation of John the Baptist.

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Oil Painting The Madonna and Child with St. Anne from Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Buy Hand Painted Oil Reproduction

The Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Dei Palafrenieri) is one of the mature religious work of the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio painted in 1605-1606 for the altar of Archconfraternity of the Papal Grooms (Italian: Arciconfraternita di Sant Anna de Parafrenieri) in the Basilica of Saint Peter.[1] The painting was briefly exhibited in the parish church for the Vatican the church of Sant Anna dei Palafrenieri on the Via di Porta Angelica in Borgo near the Vatican. It was subsequently sold to Cardinal Scipione Borghese and now hangs in his palazzo (Galleria Borghese) where it shares space along with five other Caravaggios: Boy with a basket of fruit David with the head of Goliath (attributed to 1606) Young sick Bacchus Saint Jerome Writing and St John the Baptist in the Desert. While not his most successful arrangement it is an atypical representation of the Virgin for its time and must have been shocking to some contemporary viewers. The allegory at its core is simple. The Virgin with the aid of her son whom she holds tramples on a serpent the emblem of evil or original sin. Saint Anne whom the painting is intended to honor is a wrinkled old grandmother witnessing the event. Flimsy halos crown the upright the snake recoils in anti-halos. Both Mary and Jesus are barefoot Jesus is a fully naked uncircumcised child. All else is mainly shadow and the figures gain monumentality in the light.

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Oil Painting St Catherine Of Alexandria from Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Buy Hand Painted Oil Reproduction

Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1598) is an oil painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It is part of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of Madrid. Saint Catherine of Alexandria was a popular figure in Catholic iconography. She was of noble origins and dedicated herself as a Christian after having a vision. At the age of 18 she confronted the Roman Emperor Maximus (presumably this refers to Galerius Maximianus) debated his pagan philosophers and succeeded in converting many of them to Christianity. Imprisoned by the emperor she converted his empress and the leader of his armies. Maximus executed her converts (including the empress) and ordered that Catherine herself be put to death on a spiked wheel. The wheel reportedly shattered the moment Catherine touched it. Maximus then had her beheaded. She became patron saint of libraries and librarians as well as teachers archivists and all those associated with wisdom and teaching and all those whose livelihoods depended upon wheels. The year of her martyrdom was traditionally held to have been 305 (the year of a major persecution of Christians under Galerius) and her feastday was celebrated on 25 November. In 1969 the Church persuaded by the overwhelming opinion of historians that Catherine had probably never existed removed her from the calendar of saints by 2002 while the historians had not changed their minds the Church had and she was reinstated. Her qualities are supposed to be those of beauty fearlessness virginity and intelligence.

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