Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio)
Amor Vincit Omnia in Latin, known in English by a variety of names including Amor Victorious, Victorious Cupid, Love Triumphant, Love Victorious, or Earthly Love is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio.
Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio)
Giovanni Baglione. Divine Love Conquering Earthly Love. 1602–1603 Oil on canvas. 179 x 118 cm. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.
The same subject by Jan van den Hoecke and Paul de Vos, 1640s
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Chalk portrait of Caravaggio, c. 1621
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
The Musicians, 1595–1596, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (c. 1595), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford