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Favorite places to see Caravaggio painting(s) Rome

We try to visit places with Caravaggio paintings when possible. Any particularly great places in Rome? We have seen the ones in the Borghese Gallery and Cappella Contarelli. I’m sure we’ve missed many. Thanks.

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So Becky, I just googled and came up with tripsavvy suggestions

https://www.tripsavvy.com/caravaggio-in-rome-1547892

some others will have more specifics and I know I saw some Caravaggio in different churches.

One of the churches is near Piazza Navona - San Luigi dei franceschi.

One of the most notable; sometimes overlooked, is at the Vatican museum - "The Entombment of Christ"

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Yep, there are two really good ones in the Cerasi Chapel at Santa Maria del Popolo. That church is WELL worth a visit for other reasons too, and I'd meant to get a 2nd look on the last visit but couldn't fit it in. Oh well, next time!

http://www.turismoroma.it/en/node/739

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The Capitoline Museums contain two Caravaggio paintings:
John the Baptist - Youth with Ram (1602)
The Fortune Teller (1593-1595) (the first version - the 2nd is in the Louvre)

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I too am a fan of Caravaggio and visited the Rome museums & chapel mentioned upthread. We viewed the 1608 masterpiece "The Burial of St. Lucy" at the Santa Lucia Church in Ortigia in 2014.

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Thank you, all. Janis, we also saw the Ortigia painting. Very spectacular.

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Becky - I do like this idea - "Art Tourism". Caravaggio is an excellent choice - wonderful painter - and a rather small number of "known" paintings (somewhere between 40 and 80). Of course, most of them are in Italy, but expanding the travel options might be fun. And, one could add to the travels by including those artists influenced by Caravaggio (Georges de La Tour, Joseph Wright of Derby, etc.). Your could be globe trotting.
How about Vermeer - another great choice - few known works (35) - wonderful painter - and you get to follow the northern European route (with stops in Vienna, London, Dublin, Paris - and, it could start right here in New York and Washington D.C.). I'm loving this. Maybe Bosch or Bruegel (elder or younger or both) - geeze, the possibilities are endless.
A museum hater would find this notion a form of torture. Kick 'em and run.

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You can always ring the doorbell of Princess Odescalchi and ask to see her Caravaggio about The conversion of Saint Paul.

Both the the Doria Pamphilj Gallery and the National Gallery of Ancient Art have some of his paintings.

The only remaining fresco by Caravaggio is at Villa Ludovisi. It's something to be seen, book ASAP if you are really interested in naked gods looking at you from the above.

Saint John is at the Palace Corsini Gallery.

There are other paintings by Caravaggio still hanging in Churches like Santa Maria del Popolo and the Basilica di Sant'Agostino In Campo Marzio.

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Dario, How would I find Princess Odeschelchi? You have intrigued me.