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<html lang="auto"> <head> <base href="https://www.wga.hu/html/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.html"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/support/style/style_d.html"> <script> // </script> <script> function OpenOther(u) { if (parent.frames.length>=2) { if (parent.frames['LEFT'] && parent.frames['RIGHT']) { if (window.name=='LEFT' && (!parent.frames['FOOTER'] || parent.frames['FOOTER'].document.forms[0].modeleft.checked) ) { parent.frames['RIGHT'].location=u; return false; } else if (window.name=='RIGHT' && (!parent.frames['FOOTER'] || parent.frames['FOOTER'].document.forms[1].moderight.checked) ) { parent.frames['LEFT'].location=u; return false; } } } return true; } </script> <meta name="description" content="Page of The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail) by CARAVAGGIO in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)"> <meta name="keywords" content="CARAVAGGIO, The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail), image collection, virtual museum, database, postcard"> <script> // </script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail) by CARAVAGGIO</title> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-6KZPSXQ5PJ"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments)}; gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-6KZPSXQ5PJ'); </script> <meta http-equiv="X-Translated-By" content="Google"> <meta http-equiv="X-Translated-To" content="en"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/_/translate_http/_/js/k=translate_http.tr.en_GB.1hbgkFx4Qn8.O/am=DgY/d=1/rs=AN8SPfqlmAPxwfG457BPbRXwNq39oSMGHg/m=corsproxy" data-sourceurl="https://www.wga.hu/html/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.html"></script> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Material+Symbols+Outlined:opsz,wght,FILL,GRAD@20..48,100..700,0..1,-50..200" rel="stylesheet"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/_/translate_http/_/js/k=translate_http.tr.en_GB.1hbgkFx4Qn8.O/am=DgY/d=1/exm=corsproxy/ed=1/rs=AN8SPfqlmAPxwfG457BPbRXwNq39oSMGHg/m=phishing_protection" data-phishing-protection-enabled="false" data-forms-warning-enabled="true" data-source-url="https://www.wga.hu/html/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.html"></script> <meta name="robots" content="none"> </head> <body bgcolor="#f0f6ff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/_/translate_http/_/js/k=translate_http.tr.en_GB.1hbgkFx4Qn8.O/am=DgY/d=1/exm=corsproxy,phishing_protection/ed=1/rs=AN8SPfqlmAPxwfG457BPbRXwNq39oSMGHg/m=navigationui" data-environment="prod" data-proxy-url="https://www-wga-hu.translate.goog" data-proxy-full-url="https://www-wga-hu.translate.goog/html/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" data-source-url="https://www.wga.hu/html/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.html" data-source-language="auto" data-target-language="en" data-display-language="en-GB" data-detected-source-language="en" data-is-source-untranslated="false" data-source-untranslated-url="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://www.wga.hu/html/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.html&anno=2" data-client="tr"></script> <script> // </script> <table align="center" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="97%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div class="INDEX2"> CARAVAGGIO </div> <div class="INDEX3"> (b. 1571, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole) </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a onclick="return OpenOther('/bio/c/caravagg/biograph.html')" href="https://www-wga-hu.translate.goog/bio/c/caravagg/biograph.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB"><img src="/support/gif/biograph.gif" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr color="#003366" size="1px" width="97%"> <table align="center" cellpadding="5" border="0" width="97%"> <tbody> <tr valign="middle"> <td width="30%"><a href="https://www-wga-hu.translate.goog/art/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.jpg?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" onclick="return launchViewer('/art/c/caravagg/04/24conta5.jpg',770,850)"> <script> // </script></a></td> <td width="70%" align="left"><h3>The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail)</h3> 1599-1600<br> Oil on canvas, width of detail: 90 cm<br> Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome<br><br><script> // </script></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p>A boy who acts as altar-boy to the old man, whose service has been interrupted, flees screaming to the right. He is one of those expressive studies of emotion which, like the Medusa in Florence, have contributed greatly to Caravaggio's renown. </p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <script> // </script> <script>function gtElInit() {var lib = new google.translate.TranslateService();lib.translatePage('en', 'en', function () {});}</script> <script src="https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=gtElInit&hl=en-GB&client=wt" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html>