# Sketch for the Birth of St John the Baptist [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SALVIATI, Cecchino del]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen, ink and brown wash, 114 x 173 mm ## Commentary Salviati decided to depict just one scene each in the large wall expanses between the windows in the Oratorio di San Giovanni Decollato in Rome. In accordance with this he modified Perino del Vaga's composition in his Visitation fresco, and made a new drawing, shown in the present picture, for the Birth of St John the Baptist. This drawing took into account the changed format. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Peace Burning Arms]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Charity \(detail\)]() - [Charity]() - [Christ Carrying the Cross]() - [Coronation of the Virgin with Angels]() - [Design for a Ewer]() - [Design for the fresco cycle]() - [General view]() - [General view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()