Caravaggio art links 

Caravaggio: The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599-1600
Source: WebMuseum (see "image archives" below)

Caravaggio at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Conversion of the Magdalen, ca.1598

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Lute-Player, ca.1595

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Supper at Emmaus, 1600

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
See the "Italy 17th – 18th centuries" section

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Caravaggio at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Death of the Virgin, ca.1601-05

Louvre Museum Database, Paris

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

National Gallery, London, UK

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, 1604-05 (Zoom)

Prado Museum Database, Madrid   NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!

The Royal Collection, London, UK
2 works online

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Deposition from the Cross

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Narciso

Galleria Borghese, Rome
David with the Head of Goliath
Madonna of the Palafrenieri
St John the Baptist in the Desert

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Giuditta che taglia la testa di Oloferne

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Riposo durante la Fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt)

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Maddalena Penitente (Penitent Magdalene)

Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas   NEW!

McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts
The Taking of Christ

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  
La Flagellation du Christ

Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Narcissus, ca.1595

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
St Francis meditating, 1603

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
St John the Bapist, 1606

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
The Taking of Christ, 1602

Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 8 in order to see Caravaggio's Ecce Homo

Palazzo degli Alberti, Prato, Italy (in Italian)  

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
8 works online

San Diego Museum of Art, California   NEW!

State Museums of Berlin

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland   NEW!

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

Virtual Uffizi
Medusa

Virtual Uffizi
Sacrifice of Isaac
Bacchus

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Caravaggio
Website about Caravaggio and his paintings

Caravaggio at The Art Renewal Center

Caravaggio at The Artchive  

Caravaggio at The Athenaeum  
66 works online by Caravaggio

Caravaggio in the Web Gallery of Art  

Caravaggio in the WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  

Aiwaz Panopticon

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

California State University WorldImages Database  

Caravaggio at CGFA  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Free Christ Images  

Google Art Project
5 works online

Humanities Web  

Jetset Image Galleries

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
4 unidentified paintings from a 2001 exhibition

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Unidentified painting from a 2004 exhibition

Olga's Gallery

RKD Netherlands Imagebase   NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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	Bing Images: "Caravaggio"

 
 

FBI Art Theft Program
Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Caravaggio: A Most Romantic Destiny

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Mistica info (in Italian)  
Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto (detail), ca.1596

Mistica info (in Italian)  
Maddalena penitente, 1594-95

Mistica info (in Italian)  
San Francesco in estasi (detail), ca.1595

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Caravaggio  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Artcyclopedia
"The Other Michelangelo"

International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Caravaggio, and the Light of Truth," article by Roderick Conway Morris

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Swindlers' paradise", 2001 article by Adrian Searle

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on St John the Baptist, 1602

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Boy Bitten by a Lizard, 1595-1600

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Medusa, ca.1598

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Prince of darkness", 2005 article by Adrian Searle

The London Evening Standard
"The other Michelangelo gets a go", 2001 article by Brian Sewell

The New York Observer
"Even After Four Centuries, Caravaggio's a Knockout", article by Hilton Kramer

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles search inside Caravaggio search inside M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio search inside Caravaggio (Life & Times) search inside Caravaggio look inside Caravaggio's Secrets look inside Caravaggio: A Life look inside Caravaggio look inside Caravaggio: Master of Light and Dark look inside Masters of Art: Caravaggio