A depiction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist" class="extiw" title="w:John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>, the cousin of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" class="extiw" title="w:Jesus">Jesus</a> whose calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah" class="extiw" title="w:Messiah">Messiah</a>. The painting is also known as <i>Youth with a Ram</i>, and there is another version in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Museums" class="extiw" title="w:Capitoline Museums">Capitoline Museums</a> in Rome.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Caravaggio" class="extiw" title="w:en:Caravaggio"><span title="Italian painter">Caravaggio</span></a>
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<cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">The Yorck Project (2002)      <i> 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei</i> (DVD-ROM), distributed by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10,000_paintings_from_Directmedia" title="Commons:10,000 paintings from Directmedia">DIRECTMEDIA</a> Publishing GmbH.  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3936122202" title="Special:BookSources/3936122202">3936122202</a>. </small></cite>