An Intense Painting of the Conversion of St. Paul on the Road to Damascus, by a Master. --in Honor of the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, on Satu

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Caravaggio, an Italian artist, painted this painting in 1600.
Saint Paul was riding on the way to the city of Damascus to arrest Christians there and to throw them into prison. The first lines of the Book of Acts in the New Testament tells what happened then. A great light shone on Paul, blinding him, and he fell off his horse, to the ground. In this painting Paul throws his arm over his eyes to shield them. But it is not a natural light. Then Jesus calls out to him, asking “why do you persecute me?” In the painting Christ, an angel holding him, stretches out his arms to Paul as he says this.
Paul had been riding on a horse, the proud position of a man in charge, going to crush Christians. In the painting, he has fallen down onto the ground, his way of life destroyed. He is humbled. Being stripped of who he had been as he was, his robe falls away from his body symbolically. He horse is surprised. An armored companion stands by as if to defend Paul, he does not know from what. Only Paul saw Jesus and understood his words.
This painting manifests some of the characteristics of the paintings of Caravaggio, a dramatic scene,
tension, a play of light and darkness, realism.
 
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Same painter, same scene. This one is in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in Rome

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Yes, Caravaggio did two paintings of the conversion of St. Paul.
Thanks for providing the other one.
 
On this day in 1554, a Spanish Jesuit named José de Anchieta founded a mission to an indigenous tribe that he discovered in the jungle, up in the hills of Brazil, 50 miles from the coast. In commemoration of the date, he named his mission station São Paulo. Today it has grown into the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere.
 
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i love these two paintings and the one of the prodigal son returning, although I am not sure who painted that one.
 
Where did the horse detail come from since Acts 9 doesn’t mention a horse?
 
Rembrandt?

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