David and Goliath (or David with the Head of Goliath or David Victorious over Goliath ) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio (1571-1610. It was painted about 1599, and is held in the Prado museum, Madrid. Two later versions of the same theme are currently to be seen in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and in Rome's Galleria Borghese. (See David with the Head of Goliath (Vienna) (Caravaggio) and David with the Head of Goliath). Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ... Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. ... 1599 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Prado may refer to: Land Cruiser Prado, a 4WD vehicle from Toyota Museo del Prado, an art gallery in Madrid Prado, Spain, a village in Castile-Leon the prado dam Prado River Miguelanxo Prado, a spanish comic book artist Ed Prado, a U.S. appeals court judge PRADO, a PHP... Motto: De Madrid al Cielo (From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (PP) Area  - Land 607 km² (234. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna Madonna im Grünen by Raffaello Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress by Velázquez Schloss Belvedere, Vienna by Canaletto The Kunsthistorisches Museum (en: Museum of Art History) in Vienna, is located on Ringstraße. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban... The Villa Borghese Pinciana (begun 1605) houses the Galleria Borghese. ... David with the Head of Goliath, c. ... David with the Head of Goliath is a painting finished around 1609-1610 by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. ...

David and Goliath

Caravaggio, 1599

Oil on canvas

110 × 91 cm

Prado

The David and Goliath in the Prado was painted in the early part of the artist's career, while he was a member of the household of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte. It shows the Biblical David as a young boy (in accordance with the Bible story) fastening the head of the champion of the Philistines, the giant Goliath, by the hair. The light catches on David's leg, arm and flank, on the massive shoulders from which Goliath's head has been severed, and on the head itself, but everything else is dark. Even David's face is almost invisible in the shadows. A wound on Goliath's forehead shows where he has been felled by the stone from David's sling. The overwhelming impression is of some action intensely personal and private - no triumph, no armies, no victory. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (826x1000, 137 KB) David and Goliath by Caravaggio (1600; Oil on canvas; Prado, Madrid) Source: http://www. ... Francesco Maria Del Monte (5 July 1549 - 27 August 1627, full name Francesco Maria Bourbon Del Monte) was a leading prelate of the Catholic Church, diplomat and connoisseur of the arts. ...

Caravaggio originally showed Goliath's face fixed in wild-eyed open-mouthed terror, tongue rolling, eyeballs swivelled to the edges of the sockets. In the finished painting the melodrama is banished: the drama is transferred from Goliath to the quietly efficient David, his face almost hidden, intent on the work of his hands in his enemy's hair, kneeling almost casually on the man's torso.

This painting and two others done at about the same time - the first version of Sacrifice of Isaac and the first John the Baptist - were taken to Spain shortly after they were made, where they were frequently copied and made a deep impression on art in that country. The Sacrifice of Isaac is the title of two paintings by the Italian master Caravaggio (1571-1610). ... John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). ...

References

• Peter Robb, M, 1998 [ISBN 1-876631-79-1]
• Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life, 1998 [ISBN 0-374-11894-9]

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