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Master of light effects, famous for his use of chiaroscuro, that he carried almost as far as to produce a monochrome effect, Caravaggio lived his life with as much violence as he put into his work -- neither of which was free from scandal.
His religious paintings show holy people in most realistic poses.
Thus, San Paolo is shown the prety to some strange attack, thrown by his horse which is about to trample him.
The whole subject is subordinated to the light which comes from the upper right-hand corner, strikes the horse's right shoulder and runs right along its body down to the ground where Paolo is lying, with decreasing effects of luminous intensity that finish in total darkness.
Caravaggio, the anatomist, makes a study of man and horse at the same time in a very foreshortened view.
This picture belongs to the great period of the painter's Roman maturity.
Caravaggio encloses himself more and more within the formula he created, which gave birth to a whole new school of European painters who were henceforth to be known as the "Tenebrosi".
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