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Michelangelo Merisi, detto Caravaggio - St. John Baptist
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Giambattista Piazzetta - Judith and Holofernes
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Orazio Gentileschi - Madonna with child
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Peter Paul Rubens - San Sebastiano cured by the angels
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Antoon van Dyck - Madonna of the straw
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Guido Reni - Salome with the head of the Baptist
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Christian Berentz - The elegant snack
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Corsini throne
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Jusepe de Ribera - Venus reaches dying Adonis
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Luca Giordano - Dispute of Jesus among the doctors
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Salvator Rosa - The torture of Prometheus
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Jusepe de Ribera - Denial of Peter
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Madonna of the milk
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Beato Angelico - Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost
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Rosalba Carriera - Allegory of the four elements - Air, Water, Earth, Fire
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Hans Hoffmann - The hare
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Giovanni da Milano - Polyptych with Madonna and Child with Saints
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Mattia Preti - The tribute of the currency
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Jacopo Bassano - Adoration of the shepherds
Michelangelo Merisi, detto Caravaggio - St. John Baptist
Giambattista Piazzetta - Judith and Holofernes
Orazio Gentileschi - Madonna with child
Peter Paul Rubens - San Sebastiano cured by the angels
Antoon van Dyck - Madonna of the straw
Guido Reni - Salome with the head of the Baptist
Christian Berentz - The elegant snack
Corsini throne
Jusepe de Ribera - Venus reaches dying Adonis
Luca Giordano - Dispute of Jesus among the doctors
Salvator Rosa - The torture of Prometheus
Jusepe de Ribera - Denial of Peter
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Madonna of the milk
Beato Angelico - Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost
Rosalba Carriera - Allegory of the four elements - Air, Water, Earth, Fire
Hans Hoffmann - The hare
Giovanni da Milano - Polyptych with Madonna and Child with Saints
Mattia Preti - The tribute of the currency
Jacopo Bassano - Adoration of the shepherds

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The Denial of Peter, now unanimously assigned to the Roman period of the young Ribera, was for a long time attributed by Roberto Longhi to the so-called Master of the Judgment of Solomon, based on the painting of the same name in the Borghese Gallery. The painter, born in Jàtiva, Spain, arrived in the papal city around 1606, where he came into contact with the extraordinary pictorial renewal initiated by Caravaggio. Merisi's "Denial of Peter", now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York but at the time in Rome, constitutes the starting point of the Corsini painting. The literal quotation of the gesture of Peter who, when questioned in front of the palace of Caiaphas, denies knowing Christ (Mt 26, 69-95) is exceptionally relegated to the extreme right: Ribera decides, in fact, to expand the scene horizontally with repetition of the accusation against the saint by the woman and the old man with the plumed hat, including the tavern table on which the guards are intent on playing dice. This is an iconographic innovation that will become a reference for other Caravaggesque artists and will help spread the representation of the evangelical episodes in horizontal format, often set and "updated" in contemporary tavern scenes. The work, created around 1615-1616 shortly before Ribera left for Naples, is probably identifiable with the one mentioned in the inventory of Giovan Francesco Cussida of 1624 and then in that of Carlo De Rossi of 1683. During the eighteenth century, it entered in the collection of Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini, future Pope Clement XII, and from 1750, it was placed in the gallery of the Palazzo in via della Lungara.

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