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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 585320, member: 5833&quot;]Suppose an argument can be made that C. always depicted Bacchus in white:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2293936" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2293936" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2293936</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_(Caravaggio)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_(Caravaggio)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_(Caravaggio)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>While he does seem to favor red for John, it is not reserved for him:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://az333959.vo.msecnd.net/images-7/salome-with-the-head-of-john-the-baptist-caravaggio-caravaggio-1609-d3d0baca.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://az333959.vo.msecnd.net/images-7/salome-with-the-head-of-john-the-baptist-caravaggio-caravaggio-1609-d3d0baca.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://az333959.vo.msecnd.net/images-7/salome-with-the-head-of-john-the-baptist-caravaggio-caravaggio-1609-d3d0baca.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://az334034.vo.msecnd.net/images-2/the-inspiration-of-saint-matthew-caravaggio-1602-ca909651.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://az334034.vo.msecnd.net/images-2/the-inspiration-of-saint-matthew-caravaggio-1602-ca909651.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://az334034.vo.msecnd.net/images-2/the-inspiration-of-saint-matthew-caravaggio-1602-ca909651.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Jerome_Writing-Caravaggio_(c._1607).jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Jerome_Writing-Caravaggio_(c._1607).jpg" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Jerome_Writing-Caravaggio_(c._1607).jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I would argue that, before he disrobed, this individual was wearing white:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/temp02-jpg.175499/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The plant looks like something with a spadix &amp; spathe, &amp; faintly sexual, the way orchids are.&nbsp; It is not St. John&#039;s wort.</p><p><br /></p><p>Knowing what something is &amp; what books say it is are not always the same thing.&nbsp; Later books take info from earlier ones &amp; later authors do not bother to verify everything they read.&nbsp; After all, who would have put it in a book if it weren&#039;t true, right?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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