# List of paintings by Caravaggio

Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; /ˌkærəˈvædʒioʊ/, US: /-ˈvɑːdʒ(i)oʊ/; Italian:; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggles, torture, and death. He worked rapidly with live models, preferring to forgo drawings and work directly onto the canvas. His inspiring effect on the new Baroque style that emerged from Mannerism was profound. His influence can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Rembrandt. Artists heavily under his influence were called the "Caravaggisti" (or "Caravagesques"), as well as tenebrists or tenebrosi ("shadowists").
Caravaggio's innovations inspired Baroque painting, but the latter incorporated the drama of his chiaroscuro without the psychological realism. The style evolved and fashions changed, and Caravaggio fell out of favour. In the 20th century, interest in his work revived, and his importance to the development of Western art was reevaluated. The 20th-century art historian André Berne-Joffroy [fr] stated: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting."
There is disagreement as to the size of Caravaggio's oeuvre, with counts as low as 40 and as high as 80. In his monograph of 1983, the Caravaggio scholar Alfred Moir wrote, "The forty-eight color plates in this book include almost all of the surviving works accepted by every Caravaggio expert as autograph, and even the least demanding would add fewer than a dozen more", but there have been some generally accepted additions since then. One, The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, was in 2006 authenticated and restored; it had been in storage in Hampton Court, mislabeled as a copy. Richard Francis Burton writes of a "picture of St. Rosario (in the museum of the Grand Duke of Tuscany), showing a circle of thirty men turpiter ligati" ("lewdly banded"), which is not known to have survived. The rejected version of Saint Matthew and the Angel, intended for the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, was destroyed during the bombing of Dresden, though black and white photographs of the work exist. In June 2011 it was announced that a previously unknown Caravaggio painting of Saint Augustine dating to about 1600 had been discovered in a private collection in Britain. Called a "significant discovery", the painting had never been published and is thought to have been commissioned by Vincenzo Giustiniani, a patron of the painter in Rome.

## List of paintings

Main source: Spike, John T. Caravaggio. New York : Abbeville Press, 2001: p. 253–54.
| Year Name | City, Gallery | Dimensions Technique | Notes |
| c. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling Fruit | Florence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi | 75.5 × 64.4 cm Oil on canvas | One of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work |
| c. 1592-1593: Boy Peeling Fruit | London, Hampton Court Palace – Royal Collection | 63 × 53 cm Oil on canvas | One of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work |
| c. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling Fruit | Switzerland, Private collection (formerly Ishizuka Collection, Tokyo) | 65 × 52 cm Oil on canvas | One of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work |
| c. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling Fruit | London, The Dickinson Group | 64.2 × 51.4 cm Oil on canvas | One of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work |
| c. 1592–1599: Portrait of a Prelate | Italy, Private Collection | 68 × 53 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1593: Young Sick Bacchus | Rome, Galleria Borghese | 67 × 53 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1593: Boy with a Basket of Fruit | Rome, Galleria Borghese | 70 × 67 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1594: Fortune Teller | Rome, Capitoline Museums | 115 × 150 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1594: Cardsharps | Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum | 94.2 × 131.2 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1595: Musicians | New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art | 87.9 × 115.9 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1595: Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy | Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum | 93.9 × 129.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1596: Boy Bitten by a Lizard | London, National Gallery | 66 × 49.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1596 Lute Player | Private Collection | 96 × 121 cm Oil on canvas | Understood to be the original version of the Lute Player |
| c. 1596: Lute Player | Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum | 94 × 119 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1596: Lute Player | New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art (on loan) | 100 × 126,5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1596: Basket of Fruit | Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana | 46 × 64 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1596: Bacchus | Florence, Uffizi | 95 × 85 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1597: Penitent Magdalene | Rome, Doria Pamphilj Gallery | 122.5 × 98.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1597: Rest on the Flight into Egypt | Rome, Doria Pamphilj Gallery | 133.5 × 166.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1597: Medusa | Florence, Uffizi | 60 × 55 cm Oil on canvas over convex poplar wood shield | |
| c. 1597: Portrait of a Courtesan | Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum | 66 × 53 cm Oil on canvas | Destroyed in 1945 |
| c. 1597: Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto | Rome, Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi | 300 × 180 cm Ceiling fresco in oil | |
| c. 1597: Fortune Teller | Paris, Musée du Louvre | 99 × 131 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1598: Saint Catherine of Alexandria | Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | 173 × 133 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1598: Sacrifice of Isaac | Princeton, Barbara Piasecka-Johnson Collection | 116 × 173 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1598: John the Baptist | Toledo, Cathedral Museum | 169 × 112 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| c. 1598: Martha and Mary Magdalene | Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts | 97.8 × 132.7 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1598: Portrait of Maffeo Barberini | Los Angeles, Private Collection | 124 × 99 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1598: Judith Beheading Holofernes | Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini | 145 × 195 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1599: David and Goliath | Madrid, Museo del Prado | 110 × 91 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1599: Narcissus | Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini | 110 × 92 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| c. 1600: Boy Bitten by a Lizard | Florence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi | 65.8 × 52.3 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1600: John the Baptist | Basel, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung | 102.5 × 83 cm Oil on canvas | Attributed to Juan Bautista Maino |
| c. 1600: Calling of Saint Matthew | Rome, Contarelli Chapel | 323 × 343 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1600: Martyrdom of Saint Matthew | Rome, Contarelli Chapel | 323 × 343 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1600? 1609?: Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence | Palermo, Church of San Lorenzo | 268 × 197 cm Oil on canvas | Stolen in 1969 |
| 1600: Conversion of Saint Paul | Rome, Odescalchi Balbi Collection | 237 × 189 cm Oil on cypress wood | |
| 1601: Crucifixion of Saint Peter | Rome, Cerasi Chapel | 230 × 175 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1601: Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus | Rome, Cerasi Chapel | 230 × 175 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1601: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit | Rome, Borghese | 105 × 184 cm Oil on canvas | Attributed to Painter of the Hartford Still Life |
| 1602: Supper at Emmaus | London, National Gallery | 139 × 195 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1602: Amor Victorious | Berlin, Gemäldegalerie | 156 × 113 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1602: Saint Matthew and the Angel | Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum | 232 × 183 cm Oil on canvas | Destroyed in 1945 |
| 1602: Inspiration of Saint Matthew | Rome, Contarelli Chapel | 292 × 186 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1602: John the Baptist | Rome, Capitoline Museums | 129 × 94 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1602: John the Baptist | Rome, Doria Pamphilj Gallery | 129 × 94 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1602: Incredulity of Saint Thomas | Potsdam, Sanssouci | 107 × 146 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1602: Taking of Christ | Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland | 133 × 169 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1603: Sacrifice of Isaac | Florence, Uffizi | 104 × 135 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1603: Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist | New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art (on loan) | 118 × 96 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| c. 1603: Entombment | Vatican City, Vatican Museums | 300 × 203 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1603: Crowning with Thorns | Prato, Cariprato Bank | 125 × 178 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1604: Madonna of Loreto | Rome, Sant'Agostino | 260 × 150 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1604: John the Baptist | Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | 172.5 × 104.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1604: John the Baptist | Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Corsini | 94 × 131 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1604: The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew | London, Hampton Court Palace – Royal Collection | 140 × 176 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1605: Christ on the Mount of Olives | Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum | 154 × 222 cm Oil on canvas | Destroyed in 1945 |
| c. 1605: Ecce Homo | Genoa, Palazzo Bianco | 128 × 103 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed, perhaps a Flemish Caravaggesco operating in Sicily |
| c. 1605: Saint Jerome in Meditation | Montserrat, Museum of Montserrat | 118 × 81 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1605: Saint Jerome Writing | Rome, Borghese | 112 × 157 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1605: Portrait of Pope Paul V | Rome, Private Collection of the Prince Borghese | 203 × 119 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| 1605: Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge | Rome, Borghese | 87 × 135 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| 1606: Madonna and Child with Saint Anne (Dei Palafrenieri) | Rome, Borghese | 292 × 211 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1601–1606: Death of the Virgin | Paris, Musée du Louvre | 369 × 245 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1605/1606: Magdalene Grieving | Rome, Private Collection | 112 × 92 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1606: Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy | Rome, Private collection | 106.5 × 91 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1606: Saint Francis in Meditation | Cremona, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone | 130 × 90 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1606: Supper at Emmaus | Milan, Brera Fine Arts Academy | 141 × 175 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1607: Judith Beheading Holofernes | New York, J. Tomilson Hill collection | Oil on canvas | Disputed attribution. Also attributed to Louis Finson. |
| 1607: Seven Works of Mercy | Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia | 390 × 260 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1607: Crucifixion of Saint Andrew | Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art | 202.5 × 152.7 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1607: David with the Head of Goliath | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | 90.5 × 116 cm Oil on wood | |
| 1607: Madonna of the Rosary (Madonna del Rosario) | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | 364.5 × 249.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1607: Crowning with Thorns | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | 127 × 165.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1607: Flagellation of Christ | Naples, Museo di Capodimonte | 390 × 260 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1607: Christ at the Column | Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts | 134.5 × 175.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1607: Salome with the Head of John the Baptist | London, National Gallery | 90.5 × 167 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1607: Saint Jerome Writing | Valletta, St. John's Co-Cathedral | 117 × 157 cm Oil on canvas |
| 1607: Ecce Homo | Madrid, Museo del Prado | 111 × 86 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1608: Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page | Paris, Musée du Louvre | 195 × 134 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1608: Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli | Florence, Pitti Palace | 118.5 × 95.5 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1608: Beheading of Saint John the Baptist | Valletta, St. John's Co-Cathedral | 361 × 520 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1608: Sleeping Cupid | Florence, Pitti Palace | 71 × 105 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1608: John the Baptist | Valletta, MUZA, The Malta National Community Art Museum | 100 × 73 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| 1608: Annunciation | Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts | 285 × 205 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1608: The Burial of Saint Lucy | Syracuse, Santuario di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro | 408 × 300 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1609: Raising of Lazarus | Messina, Museo Regionale | 380 × 275 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1609: Adoration of the Shepherds | Messina, Museo Regionale | 314 × 211 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1609: Salome with the Head of John the Baptist | Madrid, Royal Collections Gallery | 116 × 140 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1609: Tooth Puller | Florence, Pitti Palace | 139.5 × 194.5 cm Oil on canvas | Disputed |
| 1610: Denial of Saint Peter | New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art | 94 × 125 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1606: Saint Francis in Prayer | Rome, Church of San Pietro in Carpineto Romano currently in deposit at Il Museo E La Cripta dei Frati Cappuccini, Palazzo Barberini | 130 × 90 cm Oil on canvas | |
| c. 1610: John the Baptist | Rome, Borghese | 159 × 124 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1610: David with the Head of Goliath | Rome, Borghese | 125 × 101 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1610: John the Baptist | Munich, Private collection | 159 × 124 cm Oil on canvas | |
| 1610: Martyrdom of Saint Ursula | Naples, Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano | 106 × 179.5 cm Oil on canvas | Last known work |

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Caravaggio - The Complete Works - caravaggio-foundation.org". www.caravaggio-foundation.org.
* ↑ Vincenzio Fanti (1767). Descrizzione Completa di Tutto Ciò che Ritrovasi nella Galleria di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del S.R.I. Principe Regnante della Casa di Lichtenstein (in Italian). Trattner. p. 21.
* ↑ "Italian Painter Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio". Gettyimages.it. 24 October 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
* ↑ "Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (Italian painter, 1571–1610)". Getty.edu. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
* ↑ Quoted in Gilles Lambert, "Caravaggio", p.8.
* ↑ Alfred Moir, "Caravaggio", p.9
* ↑ Alberge, Dalya (19 June 2011). "Unknown Caravaggio painting unearthed in Britain". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
* ↑ Hibbard, Howard (1983). Caravaggio. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. pp. 15–17. ISBN 978-0-06-430128-2.
* 1 2 "Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan 1571-Port' Ercole 1610) - Boy Peeling Fruit". www.rct.uk.
* ↑ Brown, Beverley Louise, ed. (2001). The Genius of Rome, 1592–1623. London: Royal Academy of Arts.
* ↑ "Caravaggio".
* ↑ "Caravaggio tra originali e copie". news-art.it.
* ↑ Spike, John T. (2010). Caravaggio, 2nd revised edition. London: Abbeville Press.
* 1 2 Pilo, Giuseppe Maria (2017). Arte | Documento n. 33, Arte a Venezia, Arte a Europa (in Italian). Giuseppe Maria Pilo, Centro per lo Studio e la Tutela dei Beni Culturali Venice. Venezia. pp. 156–161. ISBN 978-88-6512-576-2. OCLC 1010736069.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* 1 2 3 4 Robb, Peter (1998). M: The Man who Became Caravaggio. New York City: Picador. p. 501. ISBN 0-312-27474-2.
* ↑ "Madonna of the Palafrenieri". Borghese Gallery. Archived from the original on 2005-10-25.
* ↑ McGivern, Hannah. "'Caravaggio' found in French attic unveiled in Milan". Art Newspaper. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
* ↑ Gignoux, Sabine. "New leads in the Toulouse Caravaggio enigma". La Croix International. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
* ↑ Christiansen, Keith. "Study day at Brera". Retrieved 23 April 2018.
* ↑ Heritage Malta (2022). "A painting historically attributed to Caravaggio displayed at MUŻA".
* ↑ "David with the Head of Goliath". Borghese Gallery. Archived from the original on 2005-11-24.