# St John Cast into Prison [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PRETI, Mattia]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Ceiling fresco ## Commentary St John Cast into Prison 1661 Ceiling fresco Conventual Church of St. John, La Valletta Mattia Preti was a pupil of Ludovico Carracci and was also linked to the Bologna Academy. But if his easel painting reveals the influence of Caravaggism, the frescoes of traditional subjects which he executed for churches and palaces maintain the classicist tradition. ## Related artworks - [A Mother Entrusting Her Sons to Christ]() - [Absalom's Feast]() - [Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy]() - [Beheading of St. Catherine]() - [Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery]() - [Christ in Glory]() - [Concert \(detail\)]() - [Concert]() - [David Playing the Harp before Saul]() - [Decollation of St John \(detail\)]() - [Erminia, Princess of Antioch]() - [Painting in the choir: Crucifixion of St Andrew]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()