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The Contarelli Chapel paintings at San Luigi dei Francesi are installed as a completed public commission, 1599–1602

Side walls and later altar replacements are one chapel, not cosmetic twins. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Side walls and later altar replacements are one chapel, not cosmetic twins.

Context

This is civic-church access to a new naturalism. Baglione’s later spite is reception and a 1603 legal neighbourhood, not this plaster-and-canvas job.

Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Lived 1571–1610. Legal incidents are stored as documented process, not as later legend. Ranuccio Tomassoni is not affiliated_with. Complex contribution is required except where the killing is direct.

Why it matters

It is not a unique conversion series.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Caravaggio

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.National Gallery — Michelangelo Merisi da CaravaggioThe National Gallery, London · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Contarelli Chapel and other church commissionsEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica’s Contarelli chapter and the National Gallery life print the 1599 contract and 1600–02 installation of the Matthew cycle in San Luigi dei Francesi, del Monte in the received brokerage.

Britannica Contarelli and National Gallery independently describe the chapel commission.

Established: Contarelli as a dated public commission. Not established: unique later-pilgrim coefficients.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Keep 1600 distinct from Cerasi.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCaravaggio
  2. contributed toFactThe Contarelli Chapel paintings at San Luigi dei Francesi are installed as a completed public commission, 1599–1602
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Contarelli Chapel paintings at San Luigi dei Francesi are installed as a completed public commission, 1599–1602. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-contarelli-1600

https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-contarelli-1600

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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