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Measuring 3.7 m by 5.2 m, it depicts the execution of John the Baptist. It is located in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. According to Andrea Pomella in Caravaggio: An Artist through Images (2005), the work is widely considered to be Caravaggio's masterpiece as well as "one of the most important works in Western painting."
The beheading of Saint John the Baptist is one of the staple subjects of Christian art. The story's folk version, however, in which a femme fatale has the saint killed because of her desire for him, had from the sixteenth century informed erotic pictures depicting Salome carrying the Baptist's severed head, often the artist's self portrait.
Beheading of John the Baptist (Damaskinos) The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Giovanni di Paolo) The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Caravaggio) Bevilacqua-Lazise Altarpiece; Birth of John the Baptist (Signorelli) The Birth of Saint John the Baptist (Artemisia Gentileschi) Braque Triptych; Brera Madonna; The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Lieven van Lathem, 1469, The J. Paul Getty Museum; Herod's Feast, Heydon, Norfolk, c. 1470, wall painting in an English parish church; St. John Altarpiece, Hans Memling, 1474–79; Beheading of John the Baptist, Andrea del Verrocchio, 1477–80
The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist is a large painting by the Silesian artist Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger (1591 – about 1650) which is now displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In oil on canvas, it measures 2.80 by 9.52 metres (9 ft 2 in × 31 ft 3 in), and is variously dated between about 1630 and 1643. [1]
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist; Artist: Giovanni di Paolo: Year: 1455–1460: Medium: Tempera: Dimensions: 68.6 cm × 39.1 cm (27.0 in × 15.4 in) Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: Accession: 1933.1014
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