2/internal/media/dispatcher/34684/fullThe Martyrdom of St Catherine of AlexandriaLate 1650s - early 1660sMattia PretiFAS/P/2195040603661Martyrdom of St Catherine, Mattia Preti/internal/media/dispatcher/20267/fullStudy for the Knight of Malta Fra Alerano Parpaglia (R.) / St John the Baptist Beheaded (V.)1661-1666Mattia PretiFAS/D/95059051199(R.) Study for a portrait of the knight Fra Alerano Parpaglia on the ceiling of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta. The Knight wears a tabard of the Order. (V.) The beheaded corpse of St John the Baptist, still holding the cross-staff lies on the ground. This work is a study of the painting entitled 'Saint John the Baptist Beheaded' at the Archbishop's Palace in Seville, Spain.