CARAVAGGIO (Michelangelo Merisi)
(b. 1573, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole)
David
1590s
Oil on wood, 90,5 x 116 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The pianting is one of the rare exceptions in the art of Caravaggio: it is painted on wood instead of canvas. Recent X-ray investigations showed that below the painting there is another representing Venus, Mars and Cupid, executed probably by one of the Mannerist painters.
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Author: CARAVAGGIO (Michelangelo Merisi)
Title: David
Time-line: 1551-1600
School: Italian
Form: painting
Type: religious
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