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The Inspiration of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio #231344193
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The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, 1602, is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of St. Louis of the French in Rome, Italy. The Church of St. Louis of the French, San Luigi dei Francesi. St. Louis of the French is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, near Piazza Navona. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to St. Denis the Areopagite and St. Louis IX, king of France. The church was designed by Giacomo della Porta and built by Domenico Fontana between 1518 and 1589, and completed through the personal intervention of Catherine de` Medici, who donated to it some property in the area.
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