Resumen de Caravaggios Heiliger Franziskus in Meditation über den Tod als Sinnbild für das Schicksal der Familie Rustici
The writer discusses Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's painting S. Francesco in meditazione sulla morte (Saint Francis meditating on death) in Rome's S. Maria della Concezione. The work may be seen as a symbolic representation of the fate of the Roman patrician family of Sienese painter Francesco Rustici, Caravaggio's patron. In around 1604, the time in which the work is thought to have been created, Francesco's family was in a precarious position: He was in financial difficulties and the absence of male heirs meant the family name was doomed.
