Alessandro Vittrice

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Alessandro Vittrice commissioned Caravaggio in 1601 to paint The Entombment of Christ as an altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella.[1]

The church had been re-built by Saint Phillip Neri for his Oratorian order, and Vittrice was the nephew of a friend of Saint Phillip's.

Vittrice is also known to have been, in 1620, the owner of Caravaggio's The Fortune Teller.[2]

[edit] Sources

  • Haskell, Francis (1993). "Chapter 8", Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, 1980, Yale University Press. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ F. Haskell, p. 70.
  2. ^ La Diseuse de bonne aventure - Le Caravage


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