Last week I went to the metropolitan museum of art with two of my friends whom also needed to go for their freshman seminar class. Otherwise known as the MET. The metropolitan museum of art is the biggest art museum in the United States of America. There was on oil canvas that really stood out to me. The picture was of a man getting executed and had multiple colors that stood out and called my attention. The canvas was The Execution of Saint John the Baptist. It was painted in the year 1770. This work, by one of the leading painters of the eighteenth-century Bologna, is an oil sketch for a major altarpiece in the church of San Michele, Vercelli, Mid way between Milan and Turin. The painter was Ubaldo Gandolfi. He is an Italian Painter Ubaldo Gandolfi has endowed the scene with a visionary quality, as angels appear to the saint. The contrast between of the executioner rolling up his sleeve and the prayerful attitude of the saint is especially effective. As you can see from the canvas described you can tell why I would be intrigued and fascinated by this painting.