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Article: Early modern Europe -- Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals by Creighton E. Gilbert
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- April 1, 1996
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Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals. By Creighton E. Gilbert. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 322.)
Many of the thirteen chapters of this book might well have been published as separate articles. However, as Professor Gilbert states in his preface, funding throughout them is the common thread of "the three paintings done by Caravaggio for the two Mattei brothers..." The brothers were the Marchese Ciriaco (1545-1614) and Cardinal Girolamo Mattei (1546-1603); the paintings are the Supper at Emmaus (in the National Gallery, London), the Taking of Christ (recently rediscovered in a Jesuit establishment in Dublin and now in the National Gallery of Ireland), ...