Mastercopy 'Matthew and the Angel' after Caravaggio / Oil on Linen / 82cm x 104cm / £ 4800 (more info > bottom of the page)
SOLD Copy (detail) of “Saint Matthews” by Valentin de Boulogne / Charcoal & sanguine on paper / 55cm x 75cm
Guy with yellow t-shirt / oil on canvas / 40.5cm x 50.5cm /
COMMISSION Mastercopy 'Madonna di Loreto' after Caravaggio / Oil on Linen / 76cm x 122cm
COMMISSION three siblings / oil on canvas / 80cm x 80cm
copy (detail) after Guercino / oil on canvas / 59cm x 39cm /
Sacrifice of Mirtillo -After Niccolo Tournioli / pencil on paper / 17.5cm x 25.5cm
Dawn (from Michael Angelo) / charcoal on cotton paper / 48cm x 66cm
The resurrection of Lazarus -after Mattia Preti / pencil on paper / 25.5cm x 17.5cm
Toni, a portrait / oil on canvas / 50cm x 60cm
Niamh / charcoal on canson paper / 65 x 50 cm
Jess de Zilva with her 'Mastercopy' of the Caravaggio painting that doesn't exist any more. She created it using found images.
Caravaggio painted 'Saint Matthew and the Angel' (1602) as a commission for the Contarelli Chapel.
In 1945 it was destroyed in a fire in Berlin.
Now the painting is only known from black-and-white photographs (and enhanced colour reproductions).
The piece was rejected by the the church so Caravaggio painted another more glorifying picture 'The Inspiration of Saint Matthew' which remains in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome still today.
Jess' painting is painted in oils on linen and measures 105 cm x 80 cm
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