DETAILS:
17th
Century
Michelangelo
CARAVAGGIO
Born
1571
Italy,
Died
1610
St
John
the
Bapist
[San
Giovannino]
1606
Oil
on
canvas
97
x
131.5
cm
[HxW]
Galleria
Nazionale
di
Palazzo
Corsini,
Roma
Mounting
size:
25.2
x
20.1
cm
Print
size:
14.7
x
10.5
cm
Brand
New.
In
perfect
condition.
DESCRIPTION:
This
beautiful
print
is
brand
new,
still
in
the
plastic
wrapping.
It
is
a
high
quality
double-mounted
print,
ready
for
you
to
frame.
REVIEW:
It
was
Roberto
Longhi
(1927)
who
first
recognised
this
painting
as
an
autograph
work
by
Caravaggio,
an
attribution
which
led
to
some
controversy
but
which
is
now
almost
universally
accepted
by
critics.
Its
provenance
from
the
Corsini
collection
?
today
it
is
housed
in
the
gallery
of
the
same
name
?
is
established
by
the
entry
in
the
inventory
of
Prince
Bartolomeo,
which
dates
back
to
1784:
?
un
S.
Giovanni
Battista,
stile
del
Caravaggio
?
(?a
St
John
the
Baptist,
in
the
style
of
Caravaggio?).
This
is
the
oldest
historical
reference
to
the
work,
which
cannot
be
precisely
identified
among
those
of
the
same
subject
mentioned
in
the
original
sources
of
Caravaggio?s
work.
This
information
is,
however,
still
of
great
value
because
it
relates
it
to
the
marriage
between
Bartolomeo
and
Maria
Felice
Colonna
Barberini,
and
gives
credence
to
the
hypothesis
that
the
canvas
came
from
Maria
Felice?s
dowry,
and
thus
from
the
Colonna
or
Barberini
families,
which
were
both
linked
to
the
great
Lombard
maestro
and
his
patrons
on
a
number
of
occasions.
Longhi
originally
suggested
a
date
of
1597?98,
but
this
has
recently
been
moved
on
by
critics,
who
now
place
it
at
the
end
of
the
artist?s
years
in
Rome,
between
1605
and
1606,
at
the
time
of
the
Madonna
with
the
Serpent
(also
called
Madonna
dei
Palafrenieri
)
and
the
St
John
the
Baptist
in
Kansas
City.
Maurizio
Marini
(1989)
refers
to
a
top-quality
17th-century
copy
in
the
National
Museum
in
Stockholm.
The
subject
of
St
John
the
Baptist
in
the
Desert
,
already
very
common
in
the
Renaissance
and
one
of
Caravaggio?s
favourites
for
private
patrons,
intensifies
the
painter?s
vocation
for
an
emotionally
and
psychologically
powerful
language.
From
this
point
of
view,
the
religious
message
diverges
from
the
dogma
of
Counter-Reformation
orthodoxy
and
appears
in
a
form
of
expression
which
is
closer
to
the
earthly
and
human
nature
of
individuals:
so
much
so
that
it
is
instantly
and
unconsciously
assimilated
by
the
viewer.
Morena
Costantini
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