120+ Caravaggio St John The Baptist With A Ram
120+ Caravaggio St John The Baptist With A Ram . John the baptist (youth with a ram), musei capitolini, rome (1602) another depiction of st. He is not androgynous, like the bacchus, but he is nearly as challenging and even more openly erotic.one has only to imagine replacing the ram with a leering old man to become aware of the picture's potential. Courtesy of wikimedia commons for more: In caravaggio's painting youth with a ram, the boy is generally referred as saint john the baptist.but the difficulty is that this youth is not acceptable as a sacred christian figure. Here, he is propping his left elbow on some white.