genre: religious art / instance of: painting / artist: Caravaggio

commissioned by: Francesco Maria del Monte (2) | Ciriaco Mattei (2) | Catholic Church (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Scipione Borghese (1) | Asdrubale Mattei (1) | Matthieu Cointerel (1) | Laerzio Cherubini (1) | Ottavio Costa (1)

owned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | Catholic Church (1) | Charles I of England (1) | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (1) | Vincenzo Gonzaga (1) | British royal family (1) | J. Tomilson Hill (1)

movement: Baroque (58) | Caravaggisti (2) | Baroque painting (1)

named after: Saint Lucy (1)

based on: 1 Samuel (3) | Book of Judith (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Our Lady of the Rosary (1) | Denial of Peter (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | Calling of the disciples (1) | Matthew 4 (1) | Madonna and Child (1)

depicts: man (18) | woman (17) | Jesus Christ (13) | Virgin Mary (10) | John the Baptist (8) | boy (7) | angel (7) | Child Jesus (7) | Mary Magdalena (5) | long hair (4) | Matthew the Apostle (4) | mother (3) | head (3) | Peter (3) | David (3) | Jerome (3) | décolletage (3) | dress (3)

material used: oil paint (64) | canvas (29) | canvas (3) | wood (1)

collection: private collection (5) | San Luigi dei Francesi Church (4) | Borghese Collection (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Galleria Borghese (3) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (3) | Bode Museum (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery (2) | Santa Maria del Popolo (2) | Doria Pamphilj Gallery (2) | Regional museum of Messina (2) | Princeton University (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Royal Palace of Madrid (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | Vatican Museums (1)

location: Galleria Borghese (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery (2) | St. John's Co-Cathedral (2) | San Luigi dei Francesi Church (2) | Doria Pamphilj Gallery (2) | Regional museum of Messina (2) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (2) | Contarelli Chapel (2) | Cerasi Chapel (2) | Princeton University (1) | Uffizi (1) | Pinacoteca di Brera (1) | Sanssouci (1) | Bode Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Royal Palace of Madrid (1)

part of: None (2) | None (2)

country of origin: Italy (1)

exhibition history: Corps et Ombres (7) | Europeana 280 (3) | Bode Museum (1) | Contarelli Chapel (1) | Colnaghi (1) | Velázquez (1) | Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe (1)

main subject: John the Baptist (3) | Madonna and Child (3) | David and Goliath (3) | arrest of Jesus (2) | Road to Emmaus appearance (2) | conversion of Paul the Apostle (2) | Flagellation of Christ (2) | Binding of Isaac (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Judith and Holofernes (2) | Crowning with Thorns (2) | John the Baptist in the wilderness (2) | Jerome (1) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | entombment of Christ (1) | Denial of Peter (1) | Annunciation (1) | Catherine of Alexandria (1)

location of final assembly: Rome (3) | Italy (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (47)