Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, St. John the Baptist (1610), Gallerie Borghese, Rome.

Caravaggio includes the ram first seen in the 1602 painting, but here it is more a background ornament. St. John the Baptist not only seems to be brooding, he also appears to be weary. Gone are the confrontational looks of the 1602 St. John. Here we are forced into the contemplative mind of the young, ruddy faced saint.