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| Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571-1610 Porto Ercole). The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610 (detail). Oil on canvas. Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples |
NEW YORK---The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula,
Caravaggio's (1571–1610) last painting, is on exceptional loan from the Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in Naples and presented with
The Met's The Denial of Saint Peter, also created by the artist in the last months of his life. Commissioned by the Genoese patrician Marcantonio Doria two months before the artist's death in July 1610, Caravaggio painted The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula in an unprecedented minimalist style; its interpretation of the tragic event that is its subject, combined with the abbreviated manner of painting, has only one parallel: The Denial of Saint Peter. [
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Caravaggio's Last Two Paintings" (Through July 9, 2017); 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York; (212) 535-7710; metmuseum.org
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| Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571-1610 Porto Ercole). The Denial of Saint Peter, 1610. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Herman and Lila Shickman, and Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997 |
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