Artist: Giovanni Battista Caracciolo
Date: 1625
Size: 131 x 156 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
The Neapolitan painter Caracciolo was deeply influenced by Caravaggio, who worked in Naples in 1606–7 and 1610. Among Caravaggio’s innovations were half-length narrative subjects such as this, in addition to his celebrated, bold contrasts of light and shadow. Caracciolo’s work depicts the moment when Jesus asks Matthew, an avaricious tax collector, to renounce his worldly possessions and follow him. Jesus’s gaze and outward gesture present the viewer with the same quandary as Matthew: whether to embrace Christ’s invitation or to take the money bag held within our reach at canvas’s lower edge.
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