{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VisualArtwork","@id":"https://artwiki.art/artworks/guido-reni/saint-john-the-baptist","name":"Saint John the Baptist","url":"https://artwiki.art/artworks/guido-reni/saint-john-the-baptist","image":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0700/2505/2457/files/saint-john-the-baptist-1637.jpg?v=1716830537","creator":{"@type":"Person","name":"Guido Reni"},"dateCreated":"1637","locationCreated":"Italian","contentLocation":"Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK","height":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","value":225,"unitCode":"CMT","unitText":"cm"},"width":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","value":162,"unitCode":"CMT","unitText":"cm"},"artform":"Baroque","temporalCoverage":"17th Century","about":[],"description":"The Archangel Michael defeating Satan by Guido Reni, an oil painting in the Baroque style with cultural heritage themes.","artMedium":"Oil on canvas","artwiki":{"masterId":"#12931","permalink":"saint-john-the-baptist-guido-reni","slug":"saint-john-the-baptist-guido-reni","categoriesRaw":"Subject Matter>Portraits>Male|Subject Matter>Cultural Heritage|Subject Matter>Cultural Heritage>Mythology|Subject Matter>Fantasy|Subject Matter>Religion|Style>Baroque|Artist>Guido Reni|Periods>17th Century|Nationality>Italian","tagsRaw":"Portraits,Male,Cultural Heritage,Mythology,Fantasy,Religion,Baroque,Guido Reni,17th Century,Italian","dimensionsRaw":"225 x 162 cm","catalogueVerified":{"medium":{"value":"Oil on canvas","source":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11434"},"location":{"value":"Art Institute of Chicago","source":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11434"}},"enrichment":{"artist":{"ulan_bio":"Italian painter, draftsman, 1575-1642","ulan_url":"http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500030334"},"medium":"Oil on canvas","museum":"Art Institute of Chicago","gallery":"Gallery 211","on_view":true,"department":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","museum_url":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11434","provenance":"Cardinal Girolamo Colonna (died 1666), Palazzo Colonna, Rome, by 1647 [Colonna collection inventory, 1647, no. 169; see Safarik 1996 for this and the following]; by descent in the Colonna family, until at least 1783 [Colonna collection inventory, 1783, no. 174]. Earl of Darnley, Cobham Hall, Kent, England, by 1812 [Graves 1912, no. 62]; by descent to Iva Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (died 1927); sold, Sotheby's, London, July 22-23, 1957, lot 318, to \"Nash\" for £100. George Wildenstein, London and New York, by March 1958 [record of phone conversation between Ay Wang Hsia, Wildenstein and Company, and Art Institute, April 4 and April 18, 1990, in curatorial object file.]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.","credit_line":"Louise B. and Frank H. Woods Purchase Fund","exhibitions":"London, British Institution, 1819, no. 62, as Judith with Head of Holofernes.\n\nDetroit Institute of Arts, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Apr. 6-May 9, 1965, no. 82.\n\nBologna, Pinoteca Nazionale, Guido Reni, 1575-1642, Sep. 5-Nov. 13, 1988, cat. 71; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 11, 1988-Feb. 5, 1989, cat. 59; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Mar. 9-May 14, 1989 [Bologna only].\n\nFrankfurt, Städel Museum, Guido Reni: The Divine, Nov. 23, 2022 - Mar. 5, 2023, cat. 158; Madrid, Museo del Prado, Guido Reni, Mar. 28 - July 9, 2023, cat. 82.","image_hires":"https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8eccb189-92f3-353a-3337-c0778c2680d9/full/1686,/0/default.jpg"},"sources":[{"kind":"getty-ulan","title":"Reni, Guido — Getty ULAN","url":"http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500030334"},{"kind":"museum-aic","title":"Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist — Art Institute of Chicago (id 11434)","url":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11434"},{"kind":"europeana","title":"Saint John the Baptist Preaching — Europeana (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)","url":"https://www.europeana.eu/item/2024918/photography_ProvidedCHO_The_Israel_Museum__Jerusalem_252733?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=hutiveronglo"}],"verifiedAt":"2026-08-25T21:14:57.514+00:00"}}