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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
Artist: Caravagio
 1601-02    Painting

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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas is one of the most copied and reproduced of all Caravaggio paintings. According to the gospel of St. John, Thomas (one of the twelve apostles) had missed Christ's appearance after the Resurrection and insisted that "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." One week later, Christ appeared to Thomas instructing him: ”Reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.” Thomas was thus convinced (about the Resurrection) and proclaimed: “My Lord and my God!”, to which Jesus responded, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” 

this work is oil on canvas  and is in the  Sanssouci, Potsdam, Berlin, Germany

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
Artist: Caravaggio
 1602    Painting

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Caravaggio's painting of The Incredulity of Saint Thomas c. 1601–1602 was painted for Vincenzo Giustiniani (Pietro Bellori) and later entered the Royal Collection of Prussia, survived the Second World War unscathed, and is now in the Palais at Sanssouci, Potsdam, Berlin.

It shows the episode that gave rise to the term "Doubting Thomas" which, formally known as the Incredulity of Thomas, had been frequently represented in Christian art.