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Saint John the Baptist Preaching (also known as Sermon of Saint John Baptist) [1] is a 1562 oil-on-canvas painting of John the Baptist by Paolo Veronese, now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. The painting depicts John the Baptist acting primarily and quite literally as a messenger for the coming of Jesus.
The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist (or The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist) is a painting of 1566 by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. It was painted as oil on panel.
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
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The left half of the painting depicts John the Baptist (the patron saint of the Order of Saint John) preaching to a crowd while pointing at Jesus, who stands close to the middle. The right half shows Saint George , a Saint George's Cross prominently displayed on his chest, slaying the dragon under the eyes of the princess.
On her right John the Baptist stands, on her left Saint Nicholas is reading. At the time the painting was commissioned, there were other paintings that made up the grouping for the altarpiece. Of the predellas, the only that remains is Saint John the Baptist Preaching, the others are inexplicably lost.
John the Baptist is the focal point in the painting, with a lamb by his side, in a kind of Garden of Eden setting. [5] The panel depicts John the Baptist, recognizable by his attribute, the lamb of God. John is in the wilderness, where he preached, according to the Gospel of Matthew (3:1-6). The brown garment, that according to Matthew was made ...
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