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His father grandfather and grandmother each died of the plague in the span of three days when Caravaggio was just six years old and his mother succumbed to the disease four years later. The Crucifixion of Saint Peter Italian.

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On the altar between the two is the Assumption of the Virgin.

. Caravaggio was born in 1571 when the bubonic plague was still ravaging much of the population of Europe. Crocifissione di san Pietro is a work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo in RomeAcross the chapel is a second Caravaggio work depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus 1601. The Calling of Saint Matthew is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio depicting the moment at which Jesus Christ inspires Matthew to follow himIt was completed in 15991600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome where it remainsIt hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio The.

At the age of twelve he began an apprenticeship in the studio of.

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