Caravaggio

Italian | 1571 - 1610

Caravaggio was an Italian Old Masters painter who was born in 1571. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Galleria Borghese in Rome. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Caravaggio's work in the past.Caravaggio's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 197 USD to 123,873 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 123,873 USD for Saint Jerome, sold at Dorotheum, Vienna in 2013. Caravaggio has been featured in articles for Hyperallergic, Artmajeur Magazine and The Art Newspaper. The most recent article is Art Unlocked: Critics on the One Work That Explains the Great Artists, from Turner to Basquiat written for The Guardian in April 2024. The artist died in 1610.

Artist's alternative names: Michelangelo Merisi, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Boy peeling a fruit

oil on canvas

25¾ x 20 7/8 in. (65.4 x 52.9 cm.)

Melons, apricots, grapes and apples on a stone ledge

oil on canvas

19½ x 25 5/8 in. (49.5 x 65 cm.)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist,

oil on canvas

110.5 x 92.5 cm

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At Auction

Available Artworks

The Death of the Virgin

By Caravaggio

Ader

Recent Auction Results

19th Century School The Card Players Watercolour on ivory

By Caravaggio

-5%

below mid-estimate

The Cotswold Auction Company

Saint John The Baptist

By Caravaggio

-60%

below mid-estimate

Akiba Antiques

Ecole française du XIX° siècle

By Caravaggio

Vermot & Associates

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Current Exhibitions

Caravaggio & Velázquez: A Velázquez In The Museum

Galleria Borghese

Rome | Italy

Mar 26,2024 - Jun 23,2024

Caravaggio and the 17th century

Uffizi Galleries, The Uffizi

Florence | Italy

Feb 19,2018 - Feb 26,2025

Past Exhibitions

The Brilliance of Caravaggio: Four Paintings in Focus

Toledo Museum of Art

Toledo | Ohio | USA

Jan 20,2024 - Apr 14,2024

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Articles

National Gallery to display Caravaggio’s last painting in new exhibition.

FAD Magazine 14/04/2024

Opening this week the National Gallery will display Caravaggio’s last painting, not seen in the UK for nearly 20 years.

Does a Painter Have to Die Young to Become an Old Master?

Telegraph 14/04/2024

The cult around that bad boy of the Baroque, Caravaggio, reveals our obsession with the artists that were cut down in their prime

Art Unlocked: Critics on the One Work That Explains the Great Artists, from Turner to Basquiat

The Guardian 13/04/2024

Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and new

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Coverage

“ ..The emotional charge sparked by the spectacular nature of the large scale adopted and the riveting musical score is matched by a specifically didactic intent where the use of the third dimension and of... ”
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

“ ..Since then, there has been a great deal of information discovered about Caravaggio's last years... ”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ ..For instance, the cracked lute was a metaphor for the love that fails, as in Tennyson's Idylls of the King: "It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute" (Merlin and... ”
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State Hermitage Museum

“ ..Exceptionally, the Musée du Louvre, which possesses the most important and extensive body of Valentin's works, will lend all of its paintings by the artist... ”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ ..The stories of Caravaggio's life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work... ”
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art