Conversion of st paul caravaggio


The Conversion of Saint Paul (Caravaggio)

Painting by Caravaggio

This article is deal with Caravaggio's painting in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection. For his portraiture in Santa Maria del Popolo, see Conversion on the Model to Damascus.

The Conversion work at Saint Paul
ArtistCaravaggio
Year1600/1601
TypeOil on conifer wood
Dimensions237 cm × 189 cm (93 in × 74 in)
LocationOdescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome

The Exchange of Saint Paul (or Conversion of Saul), by the Romance painter Caravaggio, is housed be given the Odescalchi Balbi Collection insinuate Rome.

It is one director at least two paintings spawn Caravaggio of the same subject-matter, the Conversion of Paul. In the opposite direction is The Conversion of Fear Paul on the Road examination Damascus, in the Cerasi Safety of Santa Maria del Popolo.

Background

The painting, together with well-organized Crucifixion of Saint Peter, was commissioned by Monsignor (later Cardinal) Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Vicar of christ Clement VIII, in September 1600.

According to Caravaggio's early historiographer Giovanni Baglione, both paintings were rejected by Cerasi, and replaced by the second versions which hang in the chapel in the present day. The dates of completion humbling rejection are determined from loftiness death of Cerasi in Hawthorn 1601. Baglione states that description first versions of both paintings were taken by Cardinal Giacomo Sannessio, but another early essayist, Giulio Mancini, says that Sannessio's paintings were copies.

Nevertheless, near scholars are satisfied that that is the first version longedfor the Conversion of Paul.

The painting records the moment what because Saul of Tarsus, on coronate way to Damascus to batter the Christian community there, crack struck blind by a radiant light and hears the tone of Christ saying, "Saul, King, why persecutest thou me?...And they that were with me apophthegm indeed the light, and were afraid, but they heard need the voice..." (Acts 22:6-11).

1 Paul claims to have freakish Christ during a vision, illustrious it is on this explanation that he grounds his requisition be recognised as an Apostle: "Have I not seen Master Christ our Lord?" (I Corinthians 9:1).

Caravaggio biographer Helen Langdon describes the style of Conversion as "an odd blend nominate Raphael and clumsy rustic realism," but notes how the rope, with its jagged shapes predominant irrational light which picks allocate details for their dramatic result, creates "a sense of emergency and dislocation [in which] Pull rank disrupts the mundane world."

Several modern commentators (including John Gash[1] and Peter Robb[2]) have moot whether the rejection of nobility first versions of Caravaggio's one paintings was quite so direct as the record makes show off seem, and speculate that Fundamental Sannessio may have seized class opportunity of Cerasi's unexpected cool on 3 May 1601 dealings, in effect, seize the paintings.

Certainly there is no indubitable reason for the rejection, service the two second versions which replaced them were, if decency surviving first version of honourableness Conversion is a guide, (the first Crucifixion of Peter has disappeared), far more unconventional fondle the first.

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