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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 585300, member: 5833&quot;]Definitely the case, almost a touch of surrealism in places.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m holding down the minority opinion here, but see absolutely nothing to indicate this was ever meant to be a religious or an ambiguous subject.&nbsp; I know full well sellers on 1stdibs do not always know what they are talking about.&nbsp; If the painting had not been described by seller as John the Baptist, would it ever have occurred to you to see it that way?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ditto here.&nbsp; If you saw it with no preconceptions, would it ever strike you, or the resident Caravaggio fan, as a religious subject?&nbsp; If I showed it to you for the first time &amp; told you it was the young Dionysus, would you have trouble believing me?&nbsp; Painters of the period put clues in the composition viewers of the time understood.&nbsp; I would bet the plant in the lower right corner of the painting with the seated [correction: lolling] young St. John has meaning, if we recognized it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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