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Salome with the Head of John the Baptist is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, from c. It is held in the collection of the National Gallery in London. The painting depicts the biblical Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist.

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The Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Made probably in 1602/1604 or possibly around 1607, it is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. It was bought in Rome by the Imperial ambassador, Baron Ludwig von Lebzelter in 1809, but did not arrive in Vienna until 1816.

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The Taking of Christ is a painting, of the arrest of Jesus, by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Originally commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. There are seven figures in the painting: from left to right they are John, Jesus, Judas, three soldiers (the one furthest to the right barely visible in the rear), and a man holding a lantern to the scene.

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The Madonna of the Rosary is a painting finished in 1607 by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is the only painting by Caravaggio that could be called a standard Baroque altarpiece. The commissioner of the work is uncertain.

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Sleeping Cupid is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio. Unlike many of Caravaggio's works, it can be dated accurately. It was commissioned for Fra Francesco dell'Antella, Florentine Secretary for Italy to Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, and an old inscription on the back records that it was painted in Malta in 1608.

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Death of the Virgin is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, from c. It is a depiction of the death of the Virgin Mary. It is part of the collection of the Musée du Louvre, in Paris.

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The Fortune Teller is a painting by Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both by Caravaggio, the first from c. 1594 (now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome), the second from c. 1595 (which is in the Louvre museum, Paris). The dates in both cases are disputed.

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The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, completed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus. Originally, this painting was commissioned and paid for by Ciriaco Mattei, brother of Cardinal Girolamo Mattei.