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Summary

Caravaggio: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist  wikidata:Q2727560 reasonator:Q2727560
Artist
Caravaggio  (1571–1610)  wikidata:Q42207 q:it:Caravaggio
 
Caravaggio
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 1571 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1610 / 1610 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Milan Edit this at Wikidata Porto Ercole Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1593 - 1610
Work location
Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q42207
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
label QS:Lfr,"La Décollation de saint Jean-Baptiste"
label QS:Lde,"Die Enthauptung Johannes des Täufers"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
beheading of John the Baptist Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people John the Baptist Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1608
date QS:P571,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 361 cm (11.8 ft); width: 520 cm (17 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,361U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,520U174728
institution QS:P195,Q613619
Current location
Altarpiece in the Oratory
Object location
35° 53′ 52″ N, 14° 30′ 46″ E Edit this at Structured Data on Commons Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object history 1608: commissioned by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master, for the altar of St. John's Co-Cathedral.
Exhibition history
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.)
References
Source/Photographer The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Wikide-I / 10.000 Gemälde für Commons
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Public domain
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.

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35°53'52.01002"N, 14°30'46.01002"E

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