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The statue is made of lime wood 73 × 66 × 24 cm in high relief, the fingers on the right hand and foot and part of the base are damaged. St John the Evangelist is sitting cross-legged, leaning on a stylized rock in his sleep. The left hand is elbowed against the rock and holds a book, the right hand rests on the knee.
Saint John the Evangelist is a 2.66 m (8.7 feet) high bronze statue of John the Evangelist by Baccio da Montelupo, completed in 1515.It was commissioned by the Arte della Seta as part of a cycle of fourteen sculptures for the external niches of Orsanmichele, each showing the patron saint of one of the guilds of Florence.
On the left wall there is a painting of Saint John the Evangelist, Patron Saint of the cathedral, giving Communion to the Virgin; and to the right is the tomb of the Servant of God Friar Francisco Camacho. Chapel of Saint John the Baptist: its altarpiece presents polychrome reliefs alluding to the life of the saint. It is dominated by a large ...
Christ Enthroned with the Virgin and Saint John (Italian: Cristo in trono tra la Vergine e san Giovanni) is a mosaic in the apse of Pisa Cathedral. It is famous for the depiction of John the Evangelist, the last work by the Italian medieval artist Cimabue. It is also the only work of his which is dated and has historical documentation ...
The closest analogies are the St John the Evangelist from the Church of St Mary Magdalen in Wroclaw (1350-1362) and the John from the retable of the main altar in Levoča. [10] As with the other sculptures in this group from Cheb, the way the relationship between the body core and the surface is represented reveals a search for a new sculptural ...
The left hand of Christ creates the illusion that the two worlds occupy the same space. The incisive and graphic lines of the painting (in the hair of John the Evangelist, painted one by one, and in the vein of Christ's arm) recall Mantegna's style, but the painting's use of color and light is different.
The painting is known as the Christ of Saint John of the Cross, because its design is based on a drawing by the 16th-century Spanish friar John of the Cross. [1] The composition of Christ is also based on a triangle and circle (the triangle is formed by Christ's arms; the circle is formed by Christ's head).
The west portal is one of the treasures of Romanesque sculpture, presenting the story of the Apocalypse according to St. John, and the Gospel of St. Matthew. Christ is seated in majesty in the tympanum, with the symbols of the Evangelists around him; according to the most common interpretation, they are the man of St. Matthew, the lion of St ...