{"id":22433,"date":"2021-05-28T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.visitmalta.com\/a\/caravaggio\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T02:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T02:19:00","slug":"caravaggio","status":"publish","type":"a","link":"https:\/\/www.visitmalta.com\/en\/a\/caravaggio\/","title":{"rendered":"Caravaggio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-article__content\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-lg-8 offset-lg-2\">\n<h2 class=\"mb-5 text-center font-weight-bold\">                              Caravaggio<\/h2>\n<div id=\"dvArticle\">      <span id=\"ctl00_ctl00_Body_PageContent_ContentControl_lblPageContent\"><\/p>\n<p>The most famous&nbsp;artist who worked in Malta has to be Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), known as Caravaggio.&nbsp;His &#8216;Beheading of St. John the Baptist&#8217;,&nbsp;a work once described&nbsp;as &#8216;the painting of the 17th century&#8217; was commissioned for, and is still on display in, the Oratory of the Co-Cathedral of St. John, Valletta. Another of his most famous works, St. Jerome, is also in the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Together, these works represent a key period in the development of this unorthodox artist. His style, with its powerful use of shadow and shafts of light (chiaroscuro), created an almost choreographed drama with the subject; a technique which broke with the tradition of religious painting.<\/p>\n<p>Caravaggio arrived in Malta in 1607 in rather dubious circumstances having fled Rome to avoid justice. He was wanted for murder.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Malta, under his new patrons, he was feted and admitted to the Order of St. John. But his freedom from justice lasted only just over a year. He was imprisoned in Fort St. Angelo and later escaped to Sicily, only to die two years later at the age of 38 still hounded by the forces of justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JgfFDAKHgL4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitmalta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive-images\/img-14536.jpg\" alt=\"CARAVAGGIO, AN ARTIST ON THE RUN\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-22433","a","type-a","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caravaggio - Visit Malta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caravaggio - Visit Malta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Caravaggio The most famous&nbsp;artist who worked in Malta has to be Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), known as Caravaggio.&nbsp;His &#8216;Beheading of St. John the Baptist&#8217;,&nbsp;a work once described&nbsp;as &#8216;the painting of the 17th century&#8217; was commissioned for, and is still on display in, the Oratory of the Co-Cathedral of St. John, Valletta. 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