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Madonna of the Rosary is sold out of Naples around 1607 as Caravaggio loses control of a major altarpiece to market intermediaries

Fugitive Naples market; Flemish merchants as intermediaries. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Madonna of the Rosary is sold out of Naples around 1607 as Caravaggio loses control of a major altarpiece to market intermediaries

Sources: [1][2]

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Dealers share the market file. Later Vienna display is carrier.

Context

Seven Works of Mercy neighbours Naples charity painting.

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

Fugitive Naples market; Flemish merchants as intermediaries.

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

    Named painter who loses the Rosary to dealers. Merchants share the sale.

What changed

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

    1. FactMadonna of the Rosary is sold out of Naples around 1607 as Caravaggio loses control of a major altarpiece to market intermediaries
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 January 1607 · verified

    A dated altarpiece market alienation is a limited inequality path.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — CaravaggioEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Met Heilbrunn — Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) and His FollowersMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Met narratives record the Madonna of the Rosary painted in the Naples period and promptly alienated through Flemish dealers toward Northern collectors, showing the painter’s weak hold on proceeds.

Britannica and Met Heilbrunn independently discuss the Rosary’s Naples origin and quick sale north.

Established: ~1607 Rosary alienation in the biography/market file. Not established: exact scudi here.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorCaravaggio
  2. contributed toFactMadonna of the Rosary is sold out of Naples around 1607 as Caravaggio loses control of a major altarpiece to market intermediaries
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Madonna of the Rosary is sold out of Naples around 1607 as Caravaggio loses control of a major altarpiece to market intermediaries. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-madonna-rosary-sale-1607

https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-madonna-rosary-sale-1607

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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