Flagellazione cristo caravaggio biography
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Naples, Capodimonte National Museum. The art historian Claudio Sagliocco guides us through this beautiful museum to discover a masterpiece by Caravaggio, realized during his Neapolitan stay: Flagellation of Christ.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – better known simply as Caravaggio – was active in Rome for most of his artistic life, but after being sentenced to death in May 1606 for the murder of Ranuccio Tommasoni, escaped from Rome and moved to Naples, under the protection of Carafa Colonna family.
As often happened with the works of Caravaggio, this piece of art was quite troubled, as evidenced by many regrets visible through the x-rays of the painting. Thus, to believe that it was made in the two different Neapolitan stays (1606-07 and 1609).
Flagellation of Christ by Caravaggio
The main feature of the work is Christ, illuminated as a large reflector whose dazzling light comes from top left. The glow of Jesus is in stark contrast to the a
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The Flagellation of Christ (Caravaggio)
Painting by Caravaggio
| The Flagellation of Christ | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Caravaggio |
| Year | 1607 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 286 cm × 213 cm (113 in × 84 in) |
| Location | Museo di Capodimonte |
The Flagellation of Christ is a painting bygd the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio, now in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples.[1] It is dated to 1607, and may have been reworked bygd the artist in 1610. It fryst vatten not to be confused with Christ at the Column, another Flagellation bygd Caravaggio of the same period.
Description
[edit]According to art biographer Gian Pietro Bellori (1672), this work was commissioned bygd the di Franco (or de Franchis) family for a chapel in the church of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples. The family were connected with the Confraternity of the Pio Monte della Misericordia, for whose church Caravaggio had already painted The Seven Works of Mercy. I
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Art e Dossier
Caravaggio: biography
caravaggio_ritratto.jpg">Michelangelo Merisi was called Caravaggio after his birthplace in the province of Bergamo where he spent his childhood. Between 1584 and 1588 he was an apprentice in the Milan workshop of the painter Simone Peterzano who also came from Bergamo. From the sixteenth century Lombard painters he acquired his bent for naturalism and attention to detail. He was a restless spirit, and in 1590 spent a year in prison for a crime he never confessed. In 1592 he moved to Rome and for a few months in 1593 worked in the atelier of Cavalier d’Arpino where he painted still-lifes of fruits and flowers. In 1595 he came under the protection of cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte who was his first important patron. The paintings Bari, Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj), The Young Bacchus and The Magdalene all date from this period. Thanks to his protector he came into contact with Rome’s major families and