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Works by Caravaggio

Holds two works by Caravaggio, who was briefly himself a knight: the first one is the huge "Beheading of St. John the Baptist" (do not miss the explanatory light show up the staircase on your right), and the more modest Saint Jerome Writing, a more sophisticated version of an earlier work found at Rome's villa Borghese.

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