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Artist



Alternative names	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Birth name: Michelangelo Merisi Italiano: Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio
Description	Italian painter
Date of birth/death	29 September 1573	18 July 1610
Location of birth/death	Milan	Porto Ercole
Work period	1593 - 1610
Work location	Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

The beheading of St. John the Baptist

Date

1608

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

361 × 520 cm (142.1 × 204.7 in)

Current location

St. John's Co-Cathedral

	Native name	Kon-Katidral ta’ San Ġwann
	Location	Valletta, Malta
	Coordinates	35° 53′ 52.00″ N, 14° 30′ 46.00″ E
	Established	1573
	Website
	Authority control	WorldCat

Altarpiece in the Oratory

Object history

1608: commissioned by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master, for the altar of St. John's Co-Cathedral.

Inscriptions

Signature in the blood under St. John's neck: f. Michelang.o [Frater Michelangelo] [Brother Michelangelo]

or

Signature in the blood under St. John's neck: I. Michelang.o [I Michelangelo] [I, Michelangelo, did this]

(The reading is disputed.)

Source/Photographer

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission
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Wikide-I / 10.000 Gemälde für Commons

The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

File usage

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