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CARAVAGGIO: St John the Baptist at the Well

🖼 St John the Baptist at the Well, 1607-08
Oil on canvas
73 × 100 cm
Malta, United Kingdom

Soft light bathes a solitary youth at a stone well, his muscular form rendered with sensual realism against dark shadow. Caravaggio's dramatic chiaroscuro and homoerotic imagery revolutionized religious art, merging spiritual devotion with raw human vulnerability.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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