This article is about the lost painting by Caravaggio. For other uses, see Saint Matthew and the Angel (disambiguation).
Saint Matthew and the Angel, colorised reproduction.
Italian: San Matteo e l'angelo
Artist
Caravaggio
Year
1602
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
295 cm × 195 cm (116 in × 77 in)
Location
Destroyed in 1945
Saint Matthew and the Angel (1602) is a painting from the Italian master Caravaggio (1571–1610), completed for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. It was destroyed in Berlin in 1945 and is now known only from black-and-white photographs and enhanced color reproductions.
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