The Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli (c. 1607/1608) is a painting by the Italian

Italy

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 master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...

, in the Palazzo Pitti

Palazzo Pitti

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, Florence

Florence

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Until recently it was thought that this painting represented Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta, and that it was a preparatory study for the large and famous Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page

Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page (Caravaggio)

Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt with his Page is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Louvre of Paris.Alof de Wignacourt joined the Order of the Knights of Saint John in 1564, aged seventeen, and distinguished himself the next year at the Great Siege of Malta, when the Turks took...

, but recent documentary discoveries indicate that it is the portrait of another prominent member of the Order, Antonio Martelli of Florence, Prior of Messina.