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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.
Saint John the Baptist as a Boy (Andrea del Sarto) Saint John the Baptist as a Boy (Raphael) Saint John the Baptist as a Boy (Wautier) St John the Baptist at a Spring; Saint John the Baptist in the Desert (Raphael) Saint John the Baptist Preaching; Saint John the Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of Saint John; St John the Baptist ...
The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist (or The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist) is a painting of 1566 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. It was painted as oil on panel.
A young Saint John the Baptist is traditionally represented as wearing only skins, often camel. In this case, he wears an exotic spotted fur wrapped around his body. Seated on a rock, he makes a gesture typical of Jesus to point to a cross on the left side of the painting.
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 1st 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 Yaḥyā ...
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.
Saint John the Baptist in the Desert is an oil painting of c. 1516–1517 by Raphael and his assistants, including Giulio Romano. The composition is thought to be by Raphael himself, who may also have drafted some of the sections of the finished work. It is now in the Louvre in Paris. Originally on panel, it was transferred to a canvas support ...
A painting of same subject by Geertgen tot Sint Jans John the Baptist is often depicted with a lamb. The animal is said to symbolise the sacrifice of the saint as an innocent victim of the wickedness of mankind, [ 2 ] or it could be that the saint is pointing towards Jesus Christ, whose symbol is the paschal lamb (John 1:29–36 [ 3 ] ).