Focus on this artwork and explain the Other paintings of the same topic.
There are many other early modern representations of the calling of Matthew. Two were painted prior to Caravaggio's but it is unlikely that Caravaggio would have encountered them.
Carpaccio's version in the Accademia in Venice
Marinus van Reymerswaele's version (1536)
Giovanni Lanfranco's derivative version (1626–28)
Spanish painter Juan de Pareja's version (1661) found in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Bernardo Strozzi's version (1620) in the Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts
Other related paintings of cardsharps include the Caravaggisti depiction of Valentin de Boulogne in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Prado Museum early modern Marinus van Reymerswaele Caravaggisti Worcester, Massachusetts Bernardo Strozzi Carpaccio Juan de Pareja Caravaggio Accademia Worcester Hendrick ter Brugghen Venice Matthew Giovanni Lanfranco