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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 ...
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, Benozzo Gozzoli, 1461–62, National Gallery of Art; The Head of St John the Baptist, Giovanni Bellini, 1464–68; The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Lieven van Lathem, 1469, The J. Paul Getty Museum; Herod's Feast, Heydon, Norfolk, c. 1470, wall painting in an English parish ...
Changing water into wine at Cana in John 2:1–11 – "the first of the signs" Healing the royal official's son in Capernaum in John 4:46–54; Healing the paralytic at Bethesda in John 5:1–15; Feeding the 5000 in John 6:5–14; Jesus walking on water in John 6:16–24; Healing the man blind from birth in John 9:1–7; The raising of Lazarus ...
Measuring 3.7 m by 5.2 m, it depicts the execution of John the Baptist. It is located in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. According to Andrea Pomella in Caravaggio: An Artist through Images (2005), the work is widely considered to be Caravaggio's masterpiece as well as "one of the most important works in Western painting."
The most popular scene prior to the Counter-Reformation was of John's baptism of Jesus, or else the infant Baptist together with the infant Jesus and Mary his mother, frequently supplemented by the Baptist's own mother St Elizabeth. John alone in the desert was less popular, but not unknown.
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It depicts Saint John the Baptist with his traditional attributes of the Lamb of God and a staff. It was part of a former altarpiece. It is part of the collection of the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice. [1] In the background of the painting is a landscape with the river Jordan, where Jesus was baptised.