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Along with the Feathered Game and Owl, the painting came from the famous confiscation from Cavalier d’Arpino arranged by Scipione Borghese in 1607. The two canvases have also been thought to be by Caravaggio, but recent studies have noted in them the hand of the still unidentified artist referred to as the Master of Hartford […]

Executed by Spada when he was most influenced by Caravaggio and soon after his return to the city of his birth (1614), the painting was probably commissioned by Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644), who was the papal legate in Bologna before he ascended the papal throne. Contrary to the title, the painting does not represent a concert, […]

Given its size, the painting was probably conceived as an overdoor, and chronologically belongs to the period in which the artist was working in Marcantonio II Borghese’s palazzo in the Campo Marzio. The work shows Guerrieri’s penchant for the observation of reality, represented through the influence of Flemish painting and Caravaggio, as seen in the […]

Perhaps commissioned directly by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the painting is attributed to Caravaggio in the fidei commissum of 1833. The mosaicist Marcello Provenzale was identified as the subject on the basis of a drawing by Ottavio Leoni. Considered painted by Leoni himself, the portrait presents remarkable stylistic similarities even with some painting of Provenzale himself, […]

The subject of the painting was once thought to be a seamstress, because of the presence of the scissors. It was later believed to be Atropos, one of the three Fates, known for severing life and then decreeing the death of every man. Later, after the restoration, the figure was correctly identified as Berenice, the […]

The portrait of Paul V, believed to be a copy of an original attributed to Caravaggio, was most likely painted by Ludovico Leoni, a famous portraitist of the Roman aristocracy of the time, as the mention of an inventory of Scipione Borghese dating from around 1633 seems to suggest. The work portrays the pontiff, in […]

The painting was part of the group of artworks seized from Cavalier d’Arpino in 1607 and then added to the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. This work marks the beginnings of still life, a highly successful genre throughout the century and for the most part practiced by Dutch and Flemish painters. The exactness with which […]

The painting was in the Borghese collection from 1610. It was executed during the artist’s last sojourn in Naples and sent to Cardinal Scipione Borghese in an effort to win his benevolence; the work was on board the ship in which Caravaggio made his final, desperate journey. In representing this famous biblical episode, Caravaggio portrayed […]

The painting was probably executed for Scipione Borghese – perhaps to express gratitude for the latter’s help when the artist was in trouble with the law (1605) – and was the first work by Caravaggio to enter the Borghese collection. Jerome was one of the most venerated saints during the Counter-Reformation, partly because of his […]

The painting is mentioned in 1612 with reference to Battistello on a receipt of the Borghese family’s carpenter, and is cited later (1650) in Manilli’s Description, with the singular attribution to Giulio Romano. David is depicted full-length, leaning on the hilt of a sword and wearing a fashionable hat with feathers. A ray of light […]