Caravaggio.Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt.
c.1607-1608. Oil on canvas. The Louvre, Paris, France. More.
Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Knights
of St. John of Malta, he was head of a military order and a sovereign state;
he commissioned this portrait. As a reward for this painting Wignacourt
gave the painter an honorary knighthood.
