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The Calling of St Matthew (Caravaggio)
''The Calling of Saint Matthew'' is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicting the moment at which Jesus Christ inspires Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599-1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains today. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, ''The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew'' (painted around the same time as the ''Calling'') and ''The Inspiration of Saint Matthew'' (1602).
==Commission==
Over a decade before, Cardinal Matthieu Cointerel (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left in his will funds and specific instructions for the decoration of a chapel based on themes related to his namesake, St Matthew. The dome of the chapel was decorated with frescoes by the late Mannerist artist Cavalier D'Arpino, Caravaggio's former employer and one of the most popular painters in Rome at the time. But as D'Arpino became busy with royal and papal patronage, Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, Caravaggio's patron and also the prefect of the Fabbrica of St Peter's (the Vatican office for Church property), intervened to obtain for Caravaggio his first major church commission and his first painting with more than a handful of figures.
The ''Calling'' hangs opposite ''The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew''. While the ''Martyrdom'' was probably the first to be started, the ''Calling'' was, by report, the first to be completed. The commission for these two lateral paintings — the ''Calling'' and the ''Martyrdom'' — is dated July 1599, and final payment was made in July 1600. Between the two, at the altar, is ''The Inspiration of Saint Matthew'' (1602).
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