Everything about Madonna Of The Rosary Caravaggio totally explained
The
Madonna of the Rosary is a painting finished in
1607 by the
Italian Baroque painter
Caravaggio. It is housed in the
Kunsthistorisches Museum of
Vienna.
In its huge scale and multi-figured design the grandest of Caravaggio's paintings, this may have been commissioned by
Cesare d'Este,
Duke of Modena, in
1605 and undertaken in
Naples. It was offered to
Vincenzo I Gonzaga,
Duke of Mantua, in
1607 and was bought by a consortium of Flemish artists, including
Rubens, by whom it was offered to the Dominican church in
Antwerp.
The theme is Dominican. St. Dominic and his friars spread the devotion of the rosary; and here the Madonna, as Queen of Heaven, issues orders to the saint to her right, who clutches a rosary, and the Dominican St. Peter Martyr to her left. Beside St. Peter Martyr stands the most famous of Dominican theologians, St. Thomas Aquinas.
Madonna, Child and saints form a heavenly triangle concealed from the classically costumed suppliants at the front, who kneel in prayer with arms outstretched to St Dominic, while a donor in modern ruff and doublet eyes the viewer. The column to the left and the curtain overhead add to the formality of the scene. Caravaggio achieves an elaborate ordering and interlocking of forms that heralds the typical Baroque altarpiece.
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