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The Conversion of Saint Paul (or Conversion of Saul), by the Italian painter Caravaggio, is housed in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection of Rome. It is one of at least two paintings by Caravaggio of the same subject, the Conversion of Paul. Another is The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus, in the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo.
| The Conversion of Saint Paul | |
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| Italian: Conversione di Saulo Odescalchi | |
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| Artist | Caravaggio |
| Year | 1600/1601 |
| Type | Oil on cypress wood |
| Dimensions | 237 cm × 189 cm (93 in × 74 in) |
| Location | Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome |
Background
The painting, together with a Crucifixion of Saint Peter, was commissioned by Monsignor (later Cardinal) Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII, in September 1600. According to Caravaggio's early biographer Giovanni Baglione, both paintings were rejected by Cerasi, and replaced by the second versions which hang in the chapel today. The dates of completion and rejection are determined from the death of Cerasi in May 1601. Baglione states that the first versions of both paintings were taken by Cardinal Giacomo Sannessio, but another early writer, Giulio Mancini, says that Sannessio's paintings were copies. Nevertheless, most scholars are satisfied that this is the first version of the Conversion of Paul.
The painting records the moment when Saul of Tarsus, on his way to Damascus to annihilate the Christian community there, is struck blind by a brilliant light and hears the voice of Christ saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?...And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid, but they heard not the voice..." (Acts 22:6-11). Elsewhere Paul claims to have seen Christ during a vision, and it is on this basis that he grounds his claim be recognised as an Apostle: "Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?" (I Corinthians 9:1).
Caravaggio biographer Helen Langdon describes the style of Conversion as "an odd blend of Raphael and clumsy rustic realism," but notes how the composition, with its jagged shapes and irrational light which picks out details for their dramatic impact, creates "a sense of crisis and dislocation [in which] Christ disrupts the mundane world."
Several modern commentators (including John Gash and Peter Robb) have questioned whether the rejection of the first versions of Caravaggio's two paintings was quite so straightforward as the record makes it seem, and speculate that Cardinal Sannessio may have seized the opportunity of Cerasi's unexpected death on 3 May 1601 to, in effect, seize the paintings. Certainly there is no obvious reason for the rejection, and the two second versions which replaced them were, if the surviving first version of the Conversion is a guide, (the first Crucifixion of Peter has disappeared), far more unconventional than the first.
See also
- List of paintings by Caravaggio
References
- ^ John Gash, Caravaggio (2003), ISBN 1-904449-22-0
- ^ Robb, Peter (2000). M: Caravaggio. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-4858-4.
External links
Media related to Conversion of Saint Paul by Caravaggio (Odescalchi) at Wikimedia Commons
На других языках
- [en] The Conversion of Saint Paul (Caravaggio)
[es] La conversión de San Pablo (Caravaggio)
La conversión de Pablo de Tarso es un cuadro del pintor Caravaggio. De nuevo, usa el mismo lenguaje que en La crucifixión de San Pedro para dar a conocer el mensaje bíblico. Esta no fue aceptada, pero otra versión pictórica del mismo tema bíblico, (La conversión de San Pablo en el camino a Damasco), sí lo fue. La obra aceptada mostraba al santo empequeñecido ante el caballo, provocando un intercambio de palabras entre un prelado y Caravaggio: «¿Por qué has puesto al caballo en medio y a San Pablo en el suelo?. ¿Es acaso el caballo Dios? ¿Por qué?», a lo que Caravaggio respondió: «No, pero el animal está en el centro de la luz de Dios». (Lambert, p.66).[fr] La Conversion de saint Paul (Le Caravage)
La Conversion de saint Paul est une œuvre de Caravage dont l'artiste réalise deux versions successives sur commande du trésorier pontifical Tiberio Cerasi. La première version appartient désormais à la collection privée Odescalchi-Balbi à Rome, tandis que la seconde version est installée depuis l'origine dans la chapelle Cerasi de l'église Santa Maria del Popolo de Rome. Afin de les distinguer, il est souvent fait mention du tableau « Balbi » pour désigner la première œuvre tandis que la seconde est désignée simplement sous le nom de Conversion de saint Paul, ou parfois du tableau « Cerasi ».[it] Conversione di san Paolo (Caravaggio Odescalchi)
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