David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio, Rome)
…has been dated as early as 1605 and as late as 1609–1610, with more recent scholars tending towards the former. Caravaggio also treated this subject in an oil on poplar wood panel dated to c. 1607, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and in an earlier oil on canvas dated to c. 1600 in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. The immediate inspiration…