Caravaggio

Italian | 1571 - 1610

Caravaggio was an Italian Old Masters painter who was born in 1571.

How much does a Caravaggio cost?

Caravaggio's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 16 USD to 123,873 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Caravaggio's most expensive painting?

Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 123,873 USD for Saint Jerome, sold at Dorotheum, Vienna in 2013. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 9,728 USD.

Where can I see Caravaggio's works?

His work is currently being shown at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The National Gallery, London have featured Caravaggio's work in the past.

Caravaggio in the news

Caravaggio has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Wall Street Journal in March 2025. The artist died in 1610.

Artist's alternative names: Michelangelo Merisi, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes

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Art books ,1955

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Notable Lots

Apollo hazing Marsyas

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LA PARTIE DE CARTE

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Boy peeling a fruit

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes

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Art books ,1955

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Suonatore di liuto, con un vaso di fiori, frutta, spartito e violino

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Van Pepe Studio ,2021

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Current Exhibitions

Caravaggio 2025

Palazzo Barberini

Rome | Italy

Mar 07,2025 - Jul 06,2025

Past Exhibitions

Caravaggio and the 17th century

Uffizi Galleries, The Uffizi

Florence | Italy

Feb 19,2018 - Feb 26,2025

Caravaggio. Il ritratto svelato

Palazzo Barberini

Rome | Italy

Nov 23,2024 - Feb 23,2025

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Articles

The Art Newspaper 23/04/2025

鈥淢ary Magdalene in Ecstasy鈥� will be on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi until 18 May.

The Art Newspaper 11/04/2025

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a selection of his most captivating works to see in the city all year round.

The Wall Street Journal 29/03/2025

Rome鈥檚 National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini offers an astonishing survey of the painter, featuring instructive groupings of his work from collections in Italy and around the world.

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鈥� ..The emotional charge sparked by the spectacular nature of the large scale adopted and the riveting musical score is matched by a specifically didactic intent where the use of the third dimension and of... 鈥�
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

鈥� ..Since then, there has been a great deal of information discovered about Caravaggio's last years... 鈥�
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

鈥� ..For instance, the cracked lute was a metaphor for the love that fails, as in Tennyson's Idylls of the King: "It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute" (Merlin and... 鈥�
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State Hermitage Museum

鈥� ..The 400th anniversary of Caravaggio's death is good cause to place these two works on show together... 鈥�
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Gemäldegalerie

鈥� ..The stories of Caravaggio's life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work... 鈥�
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art