Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
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July 7, 02:15 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
unframed: 78.5 x 98.8 cm.; 30⅞ x 38¾ in.
framed: 96 x 115.5 cm.; 37⅞ x 45½ in.
This seventeenth-century copy derives from Caravaggio's monumental altarpiece commissioned in 1608 by the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem of Malta in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.1
1 https://www.stjohnscocathedral.com/the-co-cathedral/caravaggio/
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