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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 dead body of Christ, seeming unnaturally light, is supported by the Virgin Mary at left and Saint John the Evangelist at right. The hand of Christ is placed in the foreground on a marble slab, on which is Bellini's signature and a phrase taken from the Elegies of Propertius : HAEC FERE QVVM GEMITVS TVRGENTIA LVMINA PROMANT / BELLINI POTERAT ...
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine (c. 1520-1525) by Palma Vecchio. Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine is a c. 1520-1528 oil on canvas painting by Palma Vecchio, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. [1] It was completed by Titian after Palma's death. [2]
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John and the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist are titles given to two very similar pictures of the Holy Family by the Italian Renaissance painter Bronzino. The first version (German: Hl. Familie mit Hl.
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Against a neutral background, interrupted only by the edge of a wall, Mary, on the right, offers her sleeping son to the homage of a saint in the foreground, dressed like a princess and holding the palm of martyrdom, and of Saint John, who kisses the child's foot while St. Joseph bends over him with a paternal gesture, placing a hand on his shoulder.
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Geertgen tot Sint Jans – The Legend of the Relics of St. John the Baptist Of the paintings mentioned by Van Mander, the only one to survive is one wing of his triptych for an altar of the Knights of St. John at Haarlem, the two sides of which were sawn apart in about 1600, and are now in Vienna as The Legend of the Relics of St. John the Baptist, and the Lamentation of Jesus.