# Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt is painted in 1608 as Caravaggio’s image of the Grand Master who admitted him to the Order

Date: 1608

## The fact

Britannica and Louvre/Order narratives place the Wignacourt armour portrait in the 1608 Malta admission season. Later Louvre display is carrier.

It is one event.

## Context

Malta knighthood July 1608 neighbours this. Expulsion follows months later.

[Caravaggio](/people/caravaggio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Knights Hospitaller court culture; armour as office display.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Met narratives independently place the Wignacourt portrait in the 1608 Malta file.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Caravaggio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A Grand Master portrait seals patron-client cohesion inside the Order.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1608 Wignacourt portrait in the biography/museum narrative. Not established: day precision.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not date Louvre hanging as his act. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.
The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not date Louvre hanging as his act. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.

## People

- Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-wignacourt-portrait-1608