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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 585129, member: 5833&quot;]I see the stylistic resemblance to Caravaggio:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/saint-john-the-baptist-in-the-wilderness-1604-5_u-l-q19oj8w0.jpg?h=900&amp;w=900" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.art.com/products/p48116103406-sa-i10783607/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio-saint-john-the-baptist-in-the-wilderness-1604-5.htm?upi=Q19OJ8W0&amp;PODConfigID=4986478" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.art.com/products/p48116103406-sa-i10783607/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio-saint-john-the-baptist-in-the-wilderness-1604-5.htm?upi=Q19OJ8W0&amp;PODConfigID=4986478" rel="nofollow">https://www.art.com/products/p48116103406-sa-i10783607/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio-saint-john-the-baptist-in-the-wilderness-1604-5.htm?upi=Q19OJ8W0&amp;PODConfigID=4986478</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Have doubts it is meant to be John the Baptist, who was never a shepherd.&nbsp; He only appears with a sheep symbolically: a lamb that represents the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]175474[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is something amusing about the Lamb of God wandering around browsing while John sleeps.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be some other famous sleeping shepherd, such as Endymion:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4hj5zulUZHY/UDIhTzNC5lI/AAAAAAAAL-c/Y6dLvd0NHRo/s1600/Brenet.Nicolas-GuySleeping+Endymion.sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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