San Giovanni Battista
Author:
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi, Milan 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610)
Type:
Painting
Year:
1602
Material and technique:
oil on canvas
Size:
opera alt. 129 cm larg. 95 cm
Origin:
Mattei collection (1602 - 1624) later placement: , Cardinale Francesco Maria del Monte collection (1624 - 1628) Pio private collection (1628? - 1750)
Inventory:
PC 239
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At the end of the sixteenth century, Rome was the main centre of illustrative culture and the meeting place of artists of different origins. In the early 1590s, Caravaggio arrived in Rome from Lombardy where he remained until 1606 and deeply influenced the meaning of pictorial research.
