Museum Art Reproductions Portrait Of Alof De Wignacourt - Paris by Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610, Italy) | WahooArt.com

Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Oil
Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt with his Page (c. 1607-1608) is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Louvre of Paris. Alof de Wignacourt joined the Order of the Knights of Saint John (the Knights of Malta) in 1564, aged seventeen, and distinguished himself the next year at the Great Siege of Malta, when the Turks took possession of most of the island[1]. He was elected Grand Master in 1601, determined to enhance the prestige of the Order and its new post-siege capital, Valletta. It was not surprising, therefore, that he would welcome the opportunity to have at his court the most famous painter in Rome and Naples, Michelangelo da Caravaggio.