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3 days ago · Shalone Cason July 23, 2024 — 2 minutes read. In this dynamic Baroque painting by Guercino, Saint John the Baptist is reaching up to collect water from a small natural stream. He could be using this water to baptize one of his followers or he could be collecting drinking water. The image feels intimate due to Guercino's use of mostly warm colors.
4 days ago · “John the Baptist with the Scribes and Pharisees” is an oil painting from ca. 1655 that now hangs in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. The figure of John, in camel-hair clothing and bearing a cross staff, recurs in Murillo’s paintings: we saw its basic outline on this Sunday last year.
5 days ago · John the Baptist is a mysterious figure in the New Testament. He was famous in his own day, even before he became the herald of Christ. We even know about him from outside the New Testament. The Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist is June 24 (or June 23 in most places in 2022, because of the coincidence with the Solemnity of the ...
5 days ago · This picture is an example of the so-called world landscape, a term coined by art historians to characterize a type of Northern landscape painting with a vast panorama and a narrative religious subject in the foreground. This type of landscape, popularized by the Flemish painter Joachim Patinir (about 1485-1524), was fashionable throughout the 16th century. Bles placed the group of exotically ...
5 days ago · The National Gallery painting, 'Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist', was also painted towards the end of Caravaggio’s life. The story of the death of John the Baptist is told in the Gospel of Mark (6: 16–29). John had criticised King Herod for marrying his deceased brother’s wife, Herodias, and she sought revenge.
2 days ago · The Last Judgment ( Italian: Il Giudizio Universale) [1] is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.
12 hours ago · By Greg Olsen. Used with permission. Depicting John the Baptist and Jesus as not only second cousins but as “true friends.” In 1978, Del Parson’s wife and 5-year-old daughter were killed in a car accident. After this tragedy, Parson said, “the Comforter came to me. I’ve never felt God’s love like that before or since.”
