Mattia Preti
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Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John.
Self-portrait in the painting Predica di San Giovanni Battista
St George on Horseback, St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
Bust of Preti, Valletta
Ledger stone in St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
John the Baptist
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John the Baptist was a religious preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism,
Mattia Preti
…of his life there. Preti transformed the interior of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta with a huge series of paintings on the life and martyrdom of St. John the Baptist (1661–1666). In Malta one also can find many paintings of Preti in private collections and in parish churches. His increased reputation led to an…
Saint John the Baptist, a 1540 painting by Titian
The ruins of Machaerus at a hilltop overlooking the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan, where John's decapitation reportedly took place around 32 AD.
Salome is given the severed head of John the Baptist. Onorio Marinari, 1670s.
St. John the Baptist Preaching, c. 1665, by Mattia Preti