Mattia Preti, Queen Tomyris Receiving the Head of Cyrus, King of Persia, 1670-1672, 181 x 129 cm, oil on canvas (Private collection)

Mattia Preti, Absalom's Feast, 1653-1659, 202 x 297 cm, oil on canvas (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)

Mattia Preti, St. George Victorious over the Dragon, 1678, oil on canvas (Collegiate Basilica of St. George, Gozo, Malta)

Mattia Preti, Beheading of St. Catherine, date unknown, oil on canvas (National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta)

Mattia Preti, St. Sebastian, c. 1660, oil on canvas (Museo nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)

Mattia Preti, St. John Cast into Prison, 1661, ceiling fresco (Conventual Church of St. John, Valletta, Malta)

Mattia Preti, Pilate Washing his Hands, 1663, 206 x 185 cm, oil on canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Mattia Preti, Concert, c. 1630, 110 x 147 cm, oil on canvas (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)

Mattia Preti, Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy, c. 1630, 86 x 153 cm, oil on canvas (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)

Mattia Preti, The Raising of Lazarus, c. 1650, 202 x 260 cm, oil on canvas (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)

Mattia Preti, Sophonisba Receiving the Goblet, c. 1670, 198 x 174 cm, oil on canvas (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)

Mattia Preti, St. George on Horseback, ca 1658, Oil on canvas, Conventual Church of St. John, Valletta, Malta

Mattia Preti, The Baptism of Christ, 1661, ceiling fresco (Conventual Church of St. John, Valletta, Malta)

Mattia Preti, Wedding at Cana, c. 1655, 203x226 cm, oil on canvas (National Gallery, London)

Mattia Preti, Christ in Glory, c. 1660, 220 x 253 cm, oil on canvas (Museuo del Prado, Madrid)

Mattia Preti, A Mother Entrusting Her Sons to Christ, date unknown, 143 x 193 cm, oil on canvas (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

Mattia Preti, St. John the Baptist before Herod, c. 1665, 90 x 190 cm, oil on canvas (Private collection)

Mattia Preti, Tribute Money, c. 1640, 193 x 143 cm, oil on canvas (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)