Penitent Magdalene by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio

Caravaggio has a number of works with images of individual saints. Most often it is St. Francis, St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist.

St. Francis was traditionally portrayed as a praying ascetic, but in Caravaggio’s painting “The Ecstasy of St. Francis” he is shown at the moment of finding the wounds of the Lord on his body. Jerome of Caravaggio is an old man who writes a book, and John the Baptist is a beautiful half-naked young man in the scenery of the desert. Caravaggio painted and images of female saints – for example, “Repentant Magdalene.”

Related Paintings

The Bliss of St. Francis by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio John the Baptist by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Mary Magdalene by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio St. John the Baptist by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio Martyrdom of St. Matthew by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio The ecstasy of St. Francis by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio Salome with the head of John the Baptist by Michelangelo Merizi da Caravaggio The beheading of John the Baptist by Michelangelo Merizi da Caravaggio