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Caravaggio: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q42207 |
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Title |
title QS:P1476,en:"The beheading of St. John the Baptist"
label QS:Len,"The beheading of St. John the Baptist"
label QS:Lfr,"La Décollation de saint Jean-Baptiste"
label QS:Lde,"Die Enthauptung Johannes des Täufers"
label QS:Les,"La decapitación de San Juan Bautista"
label QS:Lnl,"De onthoofding van St. Johannes de Doper" |
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Object type |
painting ![]() |
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Genre |
religious art ![]() |
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Depicted people |
John the Baptist ![]() |
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Date |
1608 date QS:P571,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 361 cm (11.8 ft); width: 520 cm (17 ft) dimensions QS:P2048,361U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,520U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q613619 |
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Current location |
Altarpiece in the Oratory |
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Object location |
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Object history |
1608: commissioned by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master, for the altar of St. John's Co-Cathedral. |
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Inscriptions |
Signature in the blood under St. John's neck: f. Michelang.o
[Frater Michelangelo] [Brother Michelangelo]
or I. Michelang.o
[I Michelangelo] [I, Michelangelo, did this]
(The reading is disputed.) |
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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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Licensing
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
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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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File change date and time | 08:21, 28 June 2010 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 01:19, 28 June 2010 |
Date metadata was last modified | 01:21, 28 June 2010 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:34ADCD5B7782DF119CAD9CF23D84D816 |