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The Incredulity of St Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1601–02, Bildergalerie, Sanssouci, Potsdam
The Incredulity of St Thomas, printed and hung in a room
In a room · Gentleman's study, wood panelling · printed at 40×60 inRoom photograph: Pexels Licence
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

The Incredulity of St Thomas

c. 1601–02 · Öl auf Leinwand (oil on canvas) · Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg — Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

For the Second Sunday of Easter

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image 24×17.8 in on a 24×18 in sheet

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About this painting

Christ has Thomas by the wrist and guides the finger into His side. Four heads bend to one wound in the dark: no halo, no sky. The Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten captions it plainly, Christ leads the apostle's hand. Marcus Hurttig traces that deep touch to northern types, brought south against an Italian taste for the moment before contact. The Web Gallery of Art finds Christ's head kept most in shadow, as the least knowable. Caravaggio painted it for Vincenzo Giustiniani, whose 1638 inventory hangs it over a door. Glenn Most argues that John 20:27 records the invitation, never the touch. Here the finger is already in.

Sources: Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam · Marcus Andrew Hurttig, Caravaggios Ungläubiger Thomas. Eine ikonographische Untersuchung, Saecvla Spiritalia 48 (Baden-Baden: Koerner, 2014) · Inventario Giustiniani, 1638: 'un quadro sopraporta di mezze figure con l'Historia di San Tomasso che tocca il Costato di Christo col dito … di mano di Michelangelo da Caravaggio' · Glenn W. Most, Doubting Thomas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) · Christ's head kept largely in shadow, 'as He is the person who is the least knowable'; the four heads united in one plane

Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither and see my hands. And bring hither the hand and put it into my side. And be not faithless, but believing.

John 20:27 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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The Record
Date c. 1601–02
Collection Bildergalerie, Sanssouci, Potsdam
Subject The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
Season Easter
Master 42,558 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg — Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam · GK I 5438

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Date circa 1601
Medium Öl auf Leinwand (oil on canvas)
Dimensions 107 × 146 cm (ohne Rahmen)
Holding Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg — Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam · GK I 5438

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Caravaggio incredulity.jpg
Master 42,558 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistCaravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610)
Datec. 1601–02
MuseumStiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg — Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam
AccessionGK I 5438
MediumÖl auf Leinwand (oil on canvas)
Dimensions107 × 146 cm (ohne Rahmen)
Sheet sizes18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in
Provenance of the file
Held byStiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg — Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam · GK I 5438 the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Caravaggio incredulity.jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master42,558 × 31,589 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons; held as our print master.

The sheets

18×24 in sheet 24×18 in · image 24×17.8 in · archival margin · 1773 dpi
24×36 in sheet 36×24 in · image 32.3×24 in · archival margin · 1316 dpi
32×48 in sheet 48×32 in · image 43.1×32 in · archival margin · 987 dpi
40×60 in sheet 60×40 in · image 53.9×40 in · archival margin · 790 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 42,558 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.