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This artist depicted two prisoners watching behind bars while a silver platter is lowered onto the ground for a decapitated head. A tondo by this artist depicting blood spraying out of a different decapitated head has an unusually green background. (-5[1])This artist’s (-5[1])relationship with Mario Minniti inspired homoerotic interpretations of his paintings like Bacchus and Boy (10[1])with a Basket (10[1])of Fruit. This artist, who may have died from an infected sword wound in a bar fight, (10[1])depicted a tax collector in a beam of light pointing at himself in a 1600 painting (10[1])that exemplifies his tenebrism. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Italian Baroque master (10[1])of light who painted The Calling of St. Matthew. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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