{"id":2366,"date":"2025-08-29T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/art-style\/chiesa-san-luigi-dei-francesi-san-matteo-caravaggio-roma\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:11:29","slug":"chiesa-san-luigi-dei-francesi-san-matteo-caravaggio-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/en\/art-style\/chiesa-san-luigi-dei-francesi-san-matteo-caravaggio-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of San Luigi dei Francesi and Caravaggio&#8217;s San Matteo (RM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-incipit\">In Rome, near Piazza Navona, one of the most beautiful places of worship in the capital, the national church of the French of Rome since 1589, houses three paintings by Caravaggio dedicated to Saint Matthew, his first public commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The French National Church, founded by <strong>Cardinal Giulio de&#8217; Medici<\/strong>, who later became <strong>Pope Clement VII<\/strong>, in 1518, was completed in <strong>1589<\/strong> by Domenico Fontana, based on a design by Giacomo Della Porta, thanks to the generosity of Caterina de&#8217; Medici, niece of the future pope, and is also famous because you can see the <strong>first<\/strong> important <strong>public<\/strong> <strong>commission<\/strong> received by <strong>Caravaggio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decorations of the Church are a tribute to France through the representation of its saints and its greatest historical figures, as in the <strong>statues<\/strong> of Pierre Lestache (1758) depicting <strong>Charlemagne<\/strong>, <strong>Saint Louis<\/strong>, <strong>Saint Clotilde <\/strong>and <strong>Saint Joan of Valois <\/strong>on the facade, while the large altarpiece, oil on canvas depicting Saint Louis, was created in the 17th century by the Roman<strong> Plautilla Bricci<\/strong>, known for being the <strong>only female architect <\/strong>of the pre-industrial era.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7864-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7864-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7864-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7864-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7864.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7871-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7871-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7871-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7871-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7871.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I borrow bodies and objects, I paint them to remind myself of the magic of balance that governs the entire universe. In this magic my soul resonates with the One Sound that brings me back to God. (Caravaggio)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior has 3 naves, with <strong>5 chapels <\/strong>on each side, of which the second of the right nave is dedicated to Saint Cecilia and houses the frescoes with the stories of the life of the saint, the work of <strong>Domenichino<\/strong>, and the altarpiece of Saint Cecilia by <strong>Guido Reni<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the left nave, there is the famous <strong>Matteo Contarelli Chapel<\/strong>, from the Italianized name of the French cardinal Mathieu Cointrel who had requested that works dedicated to his <strong>namesake<\/strong> <strong>Saint Matthew<\/strong> be created for his chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7855-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7855-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7855-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7855-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7855.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7848-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7848-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7848-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7848-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets7848.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>It is precisely for this chapel that <strong>Caravaggio<\/strong> undertakes his<strong> first public commission <\/strong>of great prestige thanks to one of his initial admirers, <strong>Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte <\/strong>(who among the artist&#8217;s first works purchased the famous I Bari), who named Caravaggio for this important work for which the artist creates two large canvases, <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>Vocation<\/strong> and the <strong>Martyrdom of Saint Matthew<\/strong>, made between <strong>1599<\/strong> and <strong>1602<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>1602<\/strong>, with a new contract, Caravaggio is called to paint a third painting intended for the altar of the Contarelli Chapel, <strong>Saint Matthew and the Angel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure>\r\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"964\" src=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Martyrdom_of_St_Matthew-1024x964.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Martyrdom_of_St_Matthew-1024x964.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Martyrdom_of_St_Matthew-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Martyrdom_of_St_Matthew-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Martyrdom_of_St_Matthew-1536x1446.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Martyrdom_of_St_Matthew.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>        \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>The Church of San Luigi dei Francesi contains many other treasures such as the splendid <strong>organ<\/strong>, built by Joseph Merklin in 1881, and several <strong>tombs<\/strong>, including those of Pauline de Beaumont, built by her lover Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 de Chateaubriand, of Cardinal Fran\u00e7ois Joachin de Bernis, ambassador of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, and of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, a 19th-century liberal economist and writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Secret<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first version of St. Matthew and the Angel, purchased by Vincenzo Giustiniani, passed to the Berlin Museums in 1815 and was destroyed towards the end of the Second World War in the fire of the Flakturm Friedrichshain.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"photos mb-4 mb-md-5\">\r\n   \t                \t\t\t\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery\" data-caption=\"Church of San Luigi dei Francesi and Caravaggio&#8217;s San Matteo (RM)\">\r\n       \t<figure>\r\n          \t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/laziosecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chiesa-dei-Francesi-Caravaggio-San-Matteo-Lazio-Secrets-526x500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-img526x500 size-img526x500\" alt=\"Church of San Luigi dei Francesi and Caravaggio&#8217;s San Matteo (RM)\" 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Luigi de&#8217; Francesi<br>00186 Roma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Free entrance<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Rome, near Piazza Navona, one of the most beautiful places of worship in the capital, the national church of the French of Rome since 1589, houses three paintings by Caravaggio dedicated to Saint Matthew, his first public commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59,63,113],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-style","tag-activity","tag-art","tag-rome"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Rome, San Luigi dei Francesi, one of the most beautiful churches in the 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