Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni, Entombment of John the Baptist, from The Life of St. John the Baptist

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Oratorio of St. John the Baptist, Urbino, Italy

The disciples lay out John the Baptist's headless body, still wearing the camel-skin tunic. With the possible exception of the bald man on the other side of the sarcophagus, all are in apostolic-era garb.

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Photographed at the site by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.