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| Former-Teacher | Date: Thursday, 22.03.2012, 15:23 | Message # 1 |
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| Luck | Date: Thursday, 22.03.2012, 20:33 | Message # 2 |
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| The beheading of St. John the Baptist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo_Caravaggio_021.jpg
The image depicts the execution of John the Baptist while nearby Salome stands with a golden platter to receive his head. Another woman, who has been identified as Herodias or simply a bystander who realizes that the execution is wrong, stands by in shock while a jailer issues instructions and the executioner draws his dagger to finish the beheading. The scene, popular with Italian artists in general and with Caravaggio himself, is not directly inspired by the Bible, but rather by the tale as related in Golden Legend.
It is the only work by Caravaggio to bear the artist's signature, which he has placed in red blood spilling from the Baptist's cut throat.
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| Nastay62rus | Date: Tuesday, 08.01.2013, 09:44 | Message # 3 |
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| In Caravaggio's late works addresses to a subject of loneliness of the person in the world hostile to it, it is attracted by an image of the small commonwealth of the people united by related proximity and warmth
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