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Artist	Caravaggio (1573–1610)   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 1573 18 July 1610 Location of birth/death Milan Porto Ercole Work period 1593 - 1610 Work location Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily Authority control WorldCat
Title	The beheading of St. John the Baptist
Date	1608
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	361 × 520 cm (142.1 × 204.7 in)
Current location	St. John's Co-Cathedral Native name Kon-Katidral ta’ San Ġwann Location Valletta, Malta Coordinates 35° 53′ 52.00″ N, 14° 30′ 46.00″ E    Established 1573 Website Authority control WorldCat
	Altarpiece in the Oratory
Object history	1608: commissioned by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master, for the altar of St. John's Co-Cathedral.
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.)
Source/Photographer	The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Permission ( Reusing this file)	Wikide-I / 10.000 Gemälde für Commons Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse 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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