Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In the Bible, Herod Antipas ordered the Christian preacher beheaded for ...

Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist by Caravaggio, 1609-10 National Gallery The Last Caravaggio – St Ursula is his final work – is a modest but notable beginning for the National ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS claim to have discovered the exact site of where John The Baptist was sentenced to death in the Bible. By Tom Fish. 13:40, Tue, Jan 5, 2021 | UPDATED: 16:25, Tue, Jan 5, 2021.

The St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation has issued a statement in response to criticism regarding the impact of works on Caravaggio's iconic painting, 'The Beheading of St John the Baptist'.

400 years after his death, Caravaggio work is found. Michael Day. ... and two of his eight John the Baptist paintings. Caravaggio festivities kicked off in February with a blockbuster show of 24 ...

Caravaggio fled south to Naples then on to Malta from where, after attacking a Knight of St John and escaping from a dungeon, he returned again to Naples. You can do Rome to Naples in an hour by ...

Disfigured, weak, in fear of his life and desperate to return to Rome – Caravaggio was in a bad way in May 1610, lifting a brush in his studio in Naples after months of recovery from a violent attack, ...