The Calling of Saint Matthew Artist Caravaggio Year 1599-1600 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 322 cm × 340 cm (127 in × 130 in) Location San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome Throughout his patron at this time Cardinal Mafeo Barbarini, whom through he acquire commissions, this one half of he cycle of St Mathew the calling a paradox of a masterpiece, two figures St Peter and Christ enter, the reaction the fiscally dishonest Mathew counting the money and characters from the cardsharps, are oblique not transfixed by the miracle Christ, Caravaggio poses he seated hoi polloi in unified distinterest, just two boarded stranger, the posing is DT Peter between us and Christ emphasize the 1600 hundreth anniversary of the Catholic church. I should not fail to mention the ewndseeingy of light play emphasized Christ, the torn paper windows of the grimy inn.
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