The Calling of Saint Matthew, ca. 1625?30, Oil on canvas, 51 3/8 ? 61 1/2 in. (130. 5 ? 156. 2 cm), Paintings, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (Italian, Naples 1578?1635 Naples), The most important Neapolitan-born painter of the first decades of the seventeenth century, Caracciolo was deeply influenced by Caravaggio, who was in Naples in 1606?7 and again in 1610. The Calling of Saint Matthew (Matthew 9:9) became a popular subject as a result of Caravaggio's acclaimed painting in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome