More Caravaggio (and a Random Rafael)

Vicki has really gotten into Caravaggio, so we are seeking his paintings out at every opportunity. I can't remember all the churches (I am relatively sure they are all of the St. Mary of the Whatever franchise) and all the paintings' names, but here are a few more...

Adoration of the Persons with Sticks and Big
Butt

On a column in the nave of this St. Mary

church, an apparently random Rafael, his

Elijah, as I recall; thank goodness they left it
as it was

Caravaggio's Matthew and the Angel; Guido
Reni's still the best Matthew, if you ask me

And in the Santa Maria della Francesca church (the French

church in Rome), the martyrdom of Matthew; both this and
the Calling of Matthew (below) face each other in a
fenced-off side chapel; one can only see these masterpieces
from an awkward angle and below; and poorly lit too; good
representations are at the numerous sites on the web, e.g.,
caravaggio.com 

The Calling of Matthew, one of C's biggest hits; no doubt the

guy was a transformational genius; the first "painter of light";

maybe it's just me, but I think he had a real compositional

problem with buttocks--they are almost always in the forefront,

often comically; and, unlike Michaelangelo or Bernini, he did

not do sculpture nor architecture; nor did he do fresco; still, a

genius, whose effect on later painting is profound and

undeniable