Caravaggio

Italian | 1571 - 1610

Caravaggio was an Italian Old Masters painter who was born in 1571.

How much does a Caravaggio cost?

Caravaggio's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 16 USD to 123,873 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Caravaggio's most expensive painting?

Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 123,873 USD for Saint Jerome, sold at Dorotheum, Vienna in 2013. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 10,825 USD.

Where can I see Caravaggio's works?

His work is currently being shown at Uffizi Galleries, The Uffizi in Florence. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The National Gallery, London have featured Caravaggio's work in the past.

Caravaggio in the news

Caravaggio has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, Korea Herald and Artmajeur Magazine. The most recent article is Caravaggio Masterpiece Painted in Naples Rather than Sicily, Researchers Suggest written for The Art Newspaper in February 2025. The artist died in 1610.

Artist's alternative names: Michelangelo Merisi, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Featured for Sale

Italian 1573-1609- Boy Bitten by a Lizard; oil on canvas

After Caravaggio

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Saint Jerome

By Caravaggio

+31%

above mid-estimate

San Francesco ,1600

By Caravaggio

+20%

above mid-estimate

The Cardsharps

By Caravaggio

+899%

above mid-estimate

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Upcoming Lots

Italian 1573-1609- Boy Bitten by a Lizard; oil on canvas

After Caravaggio

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Recent Auction Results

Virgen María con el Niño y San Juanito

By Caravaggio

Templum Fine Art Auctions

Suonatore di liuto, con un vaso di fiori, frutta, spartito e violino

By Caravaggio

-25%

below mid-estimate

Wannenes Genoa

Van Pepe Studio ,2021

By Caravaggio

-74%

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Sotheby's New York

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Past Exhibitions

Caravaggio and the 17th century

Uffizi Galleries, The Uffizi

Florence | Italy

Feb 19,2018 - Feb 26,2025

Caravaggio. Il ritratto svelato

Palazzo Barberini

Rome | Italy

Nov 23,2024 - Feb 23,2025

Masterpieces From The Borghese Gallery

Musée Jacquemart-André

8e | Paris | France

Sep 06,2024 - Jan 05,2025

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Articles

Caravaggio Masterpiece Painted in Naples Rather than Sicily, Researchers Suggest

The Art Newspaper 11/02/2025

New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds.

Top 10 Strange and Bizarre Paintings

Daily Art Magazine 24/05/2024

For every picturesque painting, there is at least one strange and bizarre counterpart.

Caravaggio's Dramatic Paintings Bring Baroque Art Back to Seoul

Korea Herald 26/01/2025

'The Master of Light Caravaggio and His Descendants' runs at Seoul Arts Center’s Hangaram Art Museum until March 27

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Coverage

“ ..The emotional charge sparked by the spectacular nature of the large scale adopted and the riveting musical score is matched by a specifically didactic intent where the use of the third dimension and of... ”
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

“ ..Since then, there has been a great deal of information discovered about Caravaggio's last years... ”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ ..For instance, the cracked lute was a metaphor for the love that fails, as in Tennyson's Idylls of the King: "It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute" (Merlin and... ”
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State Hermitage Museum

“ ..Exceptionally, the Musée du Louvre, which possesses the most important and extensive body of Valentin's works, will lend all of its paintings by the artist... ”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ ..The stories of Caravaggio's life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work... ”
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art