CAVALIERI, Giovanni Battista de'
(b. ca. 1525, Trento, d. 1601, Roma)

Beheading of St John the Baptist

1578
Engraving
Private collection

The engraving reproduces, in the same direction, the splendid altarpiece completed under the direction of Giorgio Vasari in 1553, for the Roman church which, from this work, takes the name of San Giovanni Decollato.