fabrication method: chiaroscuro / movement: Baroque

instance of: painting (62) | lost artwork (2)

commissioned by: Francesco Maria del Monte (2) | Urban VIII (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1) | Ciriaco Mattei (1) | Ottavio Costa (1)

owned by: Gemäldegalerie (1) | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (1) | British royal family (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1)

genre: religious art (44) | portrait (6) | mythological painting (6) | genre art (4) | still life (2) | half-length portrait (2) | self-portrait (1)

named after: Saint Lucy (1)

based on: Greek mythology (5) | 1 Samuel (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Our Lady of the Rosary (1) | Denial of Peter (1) | Book of Judith (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | classical mythology (1) | Calling of the disciples (1) | Matthew 4 (1) | Madonna and Child (1)

artist: Caravaggio (62) | Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1)

depicts: woman (16) | man (14) | Jesus Christ (8) | boy (7) | John the Baptist (7) | Virgin Mary (6) | Child Jesus (6) | long hair (5) | angel (5) | dress (4) | Fillide Melandroni (4) | mother (3) | Mary Magdalena (3) | décolletage (3) | Cupid (2) | Abraham (2) | nudity (2) | sword (2)

material used: oil paint (62) | canvas (22) | canvas (3) | wood (1)

collection: Borghese Collection (6) | private collection (5) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | National Gallery (2) | Galleria Borghese (2) | Galleria Palatina (2) | Doria Pamphilj Gallery (2) | Regional museum of Messina (2) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (2) | Uffizi Gallery (2) | Princeton University (1) | Palazzo Pitti (1) | Bode Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Gemäldegalerie (1) | Royal Palace of Madrid (1)

location: Galleria Borghese (6) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (3) | Florence (2) | Palazzo Pitti (2) | Uffizi (2) | National Gallery (2) | Doria Pamphilj Gallery (2) | Regional museum of Messina (2) | Room 712 (2) | Princeton University (1) | Sanssouci (1) | Bode Museum (1) | Museo del Prado (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Gemäldegalerie (1) | Royal Palace of Madrid (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1)

part of: None (1) | None (1)

country of origin: Italy (2)

exhibition history: Corps et Ombres (8) | Europeana 280 (1) | Velázquez (1) | Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe (1)

main subject: John the Baptist (3) | Madonna and Child (3) | conversion of Paul the Apostle (2) | Binding of Isaac (2) | Penitent Magdalene (2) | David and Goliath (2) | Crowning with Thorns (2) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Denial of Peter (1) | Urban VIII (1) | Paul V (1) | Catherine of Alexandria (1) | Ecce Homo (1) | Road to Emmaus appearance (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | Roman Charity (1) | card sharp (1) | rest on the flight into Egypt (1)

location of final assembly: Rome (1)