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Nativity of Saint John the Baptist is a 1526 oil on panel desco da parto painting by Pontormo, now in the Uffizi, [1] where it has been since at least 1704. There is a copy in the Fogg Art Museum . Its status as an autograph work is accepted by most art critics, but was disputed by Philippe Costamagna .
Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Zechariah writing, "His name is John". Pontormo, on a desco da parto, c. 1526. Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ, and the circumstances of his birth, as recorded in the New Testament, are miraculous. John's pivotal place in the gospel ...
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 ...
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1522–1523) by Pontormo. Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is a c.1522-1523 oil on panel painting by Pontormo, produced early in his career. It now hangs in the Hermitage Museum, [1] which acquired it with countess E. I. Mordvinova's collection.
The cycle occupies the two lateral walls and the end wall of the Cappella Maggiore, covering a surface of 400 m 2 (4,300 sq ft) in total. [2] At the left (looking from the nave towards the high altar) are the Stories of Saint Stephen, the titular saint of the church and patron saint of Prato; at the right are the Stories of Saint John the Baptist, the protector of nearby Florence.
The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell or The Holy Children with a Shell (Spanish - Los Niños de la concha) is a 1670-1675 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. One of the artist's most popular works, it was widely reproduced in prints and on plates. [1]
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1668-1670) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Murillo, created c. 1668-1670, now held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. [1]
The Madonna and Child in the work are identical to those in Mantegna's Holy Family with Christ as Imperator mundi in the Petit Palais in Paris.He produced several similar small-format works for private devotion during this period, of which the best is perhaps the Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist (Dresden), though the London work's background of fruit and foliage is also ...