Caravaggio - Saint John the Baptist 1600
Saint John the Baptist 1600
94x131cm oil/canvas
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
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This is one of two John the Baptists painted by Caravaggio in or around 1604 (possibly 1605). It is held in the Palazzo Corsini collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. Like the John done for Ottavio Costa, the figure has been stripped of identifying symbols - no belt, not even the "raiment of camel's hair", and the reed cross is only suggested. The background and surrounds have darkened even further, and again there is the sense of a story from which the viewer is excluded.