Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, St. John the Baptist at the Well(1608), Bonelli Collection, Valletta.

Neither the Bible nor the hagiographic sources mentions this subject. Yet Caravaggio presents us with a genre scene that is perfectly natural.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (?), St. John the Baptist Reclining (1610), Munich.

Caravaggio takes the simplest of moments here and depicts the brooding St. John the Baptist resting.