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The Seven Works of Mercy
1606–07 · Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli
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Our Lady leans down with the Christ Child over a Naples street, borne by two angels, and below her the whole city is busy with mercy. A daughter feeds her imprisoned father at her own breast, and the Pio Monte della Misericordia reads that one act as two works at once, feeding the hungry and visiting the prisoner. Samson drinks from the jawbone; Saint James is known by his shell; Saint Martin cuts his cloak; a dead man is carried out feet first. Caravaggio painted it for the Pio Monte under a death sentence for murder, for four hundred ducats. Heaven looks down into the street.
Sources: the institution's own reading of each incident — Cimon nursed by Pero doing two works at once, Samson's jawbone, St James known by his shell, St Martin's cloak, the corpse carried out — and the agreed price of 400 ducats · the Pio Monte was founded in 1602 by seven young Neapolitan noblemen, and the painting is its ‘manifesto’ · burying the dead is not among the works named in Matthew 25 and had to be defended from Tobit and from Augustine · Gallerie d'Italia — Napoli (Intesa Sanpaolo), collection entry for Caravaggio, 'Martyrdom of Saint Ursula', 1610; museum's online masterpieces catalogue, accessed 16 August 2026
For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:
Matthew 25:35 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)