La vocación de San Mateo

Painting

Title: la vocacion de San Mateo.
Author: Caravaggio
Year: 1601
Style: barroque
Technique: oil on canvas
Laction: church of San Luis de los Franceses (Rome, Italy)


Introduction: this painting is the vocation de San Mateo did for Caravaggio in the 1601 the style is barroque and the technique is oil on canvas that is a type of oil that is use directly to the canvas. In this year the Spanish monarch was Felipe III.

Analysis: this is painting is did with oil on canvas, use the light with the tenebrism only have a focus for apport clarity. This painting have dark colours for do the tenebrism. Have a aereal perspective. Is a religious painting that means that Jesus come near to Mateo that was a tax collector and say stand up and he got up and he followed Jesus.Is a realistic painting because the man are very real, the expresivity,the emotions...
This painting is biblical.This painting is very important that they placed Caravaggio to a important artist in the barroque.

Conclusion: this painting show us the differences between the renaissance and the barroque the use of the ligth, the colours, the realism...