Pope Francis put a durable inheritance, at least the evaluation of the art. In 2025, the biography, HopeFrancis Baroque artist spoke his admiration for Caravaggio. When he traveled in a cardinal to Rome, he prayed before the drawing by Caravaggio-Holy Matthew call.
The drawing is found in Chapel dedicated to St. Matthew in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi. Shapel’s donor Matthieu Cointerel, who died in 1585, was the first commission for caravaggio in July 1599. Holy Matthew call and Holy Matthew martyrdom, Describing the beginning and end of the Ministry of the apostle Matthew, was installed.
The slogan selected for the Pope of Francis, translated as translation as Miserando Abke Eligendo, “he chose it, he chose it,” he said directly with this painting. Miserando Abke Eligendo comes from a sermon on the sound of Matthew written in the eighth century monk and historian Bedin. On September 21, the Holy Matthew is used in readings.
‘Holy Matthew’ call
Matthew in the Bible, it was described as a tax collector considered as a very suspicious invasion. In the drawing, Christ enters the room right. We only see the advantage of his silhouette and pointing to the direction of the match.
Light from the window behind the window in Chapel’s window, a group of men, including some pretty young people in the fancy clothes. Matthew, bearded man in the center, “Who, who is me?” It is a corrective gesture.
Matthew Christ, Luke and John-Con-John-Wohn – Christ’s accounts called Bible are included in the Bible.
Francis and Jesuit Training
Francis’s thinking about this painting was prepared in 1958 with his training in the Catholic. Cezuits called the “distinction” process. The drawing shows that God called Matthew, because he wants to the future, the one that requires are. The founder of the order Loyola Ignatius, as part of this process, stressed that it is a modest but strong effort to understand God’s will.
Ignatius’s own life demonstrated this search for God’s will. As a soldier, his initial career ended in a seriously injured in the battle of Pamplona in 1521 and provides constant damage to his feet. Later, he tried to watch the life of a Hermit, and then tried to be a missionary for the holy land.
At the age of 33, he entered a university to be a priest, as a result, since the Middle Ages launched the most influential conversion of religious education. The Jesuits became a great teaching force, emphasized the dispute on individual education and memorization. Ignatius was called a holy in 1622.
‘Holy Matthew’ inspiration ‘
Central painting in Chapel, Holy Matthew’s inspiration It is the third drawing in Caravaggio in 1602. The hairdlights were first planned to install statues in the center, but in the case of them, instead, they thought and commissioned. This painting also shows the sacred search to understand God’s guidelines.
This painting talks with Matthew, symbol, winged man. Each of the four evangelists is represented in art through symbols. For Matthew, a winged person symbol belongs to the beginning of the Bible, which celebrates the genealogy of Christ.
The figure like an angel that looks like one of the young men described in caravaggio with holy men Holy Matthew callAs the left index holds his finger with his right hand, it seems to be the first and most important point of it. Matthew, even carefully distracting, struggles to write on the knee based on the bench.
Francis said, “The artist uses his modern rivals in his time, the figures in the article celebrated the figures in the 16th century that in the late 16th century, where caravaggio’s watchers can see themselves in the drawing.
Viewers come to art with different perspectives arising from their experience and problems. Francis is also connected to art with its experience.
Virginia Raguin is a respected professor of Emerita in the Holy Cross College.
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