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The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. It is one of Caravaggio’s more complex paintings, with four figures that were likely painted from life.
The Musicians. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 620. While Cupid’s presence confirms this is an allegory representing Music, Caravaggio’s painting equally engages with contemporary performance and individualized models, including a self-portrait in the second boy from the right.
Nov 18, 2018 · The Musicians is not a depiction of a contemporary concert, but an allegory of Music and Love. Usually, in these times painters were presenting Music as a single, idealized female figure. Caravaggio has conceived the allegory in a style that remains intentionally and provocatively ambivalent.
May 12, 2020 · The Musicians is one of the first paintings he completed under the patronage of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Rome, around 1595. It depicts four male figures draped in classical robes, three of whom are holding musical instruments and one is dressed as Cupid while he reaches for a grape.
May 8, 2021 · The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where it has been since 1952. It underwent extensive restoration in 1983.
Caravaggio’s The Musicians of 1595–96, an unusual depiction of musicians rehearsing, which once hung in del Monte’s music room in the Palazzo Madama, encapsulates the moody experimental character of the cardinal’s musical patronage.
The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte , who had an avid interest in music.
