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The church of San Giovanni in Oleo, with the Porta Latina in background.. San Giovanni in Oleo is a chapel adjacent to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome.It commemorates the place where, according to legend, in 92 AD, at the hands of the emperor Domitian, the apostle John was immersed in a vat of boiling oil from which he emerged unharmed.
Saint John the Baptist is a High Renaissance oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo da Vinci. Likely to have been completed between 1513 and 1516, it is believed to be his final painting. Its original size was 69 by 57 centimetres (27 in × 22 in). The painting is in the collection of the Louvre.
The painting which had been lost or misattributed for over 200 years was rediscovered in 1987 and in 1998 sold for $5.5 million US. The work then became part of the Fisch-Davidson collection of Baroque paintings and in turn was sold in February 2023 during Sotheby's Old Masters sale for $26.9 million the third highest ever price for a work by ...
The painting, in oil on canvas, is 12 ft (3.7 m) by 17 ft (5.2 m) [3] and prominent are the vivid red and warm yellow colours, common to the Baroque period with the use of chiaroscuro. [4] The image depicts the execution of John the Baptist while nearby a servant girl stands with a golden platter to receive his head.
It was painted as oil on panel. According to author Russell Shorto, the painting was "a sly blessing" on "hedge sermons" given by Calvinist preachers "in a field outside the city walls, safely beyond the jurisdiction of the king's men", the king being Philip II of Spain, who had banned Protestant worship in Dutch cities. [1]
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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 ...
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