Painting ID:: 5712
Salome g 1615-20,
Oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur. Salome g 1615-20,
Oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
