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File: Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio - Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness - Google Art Project.jpg
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.
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 first 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 ...
Soviet critic Y. Elsberg calls the book "the novel about a Russian revolutionary and thinker" "with all the contradictions of his inner world" and writes that by its form My Past and Thoughts is a complex combination of memoirs, historical chronicle novel, diary, letters and a biography.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, romanized: Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist ...
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."
John the Baptist: Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: 172.5 × 104.5 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1604: John the Baptist: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Corsini: 94 × 131 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1604: The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew: London, Hampton Court Palace – Royal Collection: 140 × 176 cm Oil on canvas: 1605: Christ ...
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, Hans Fries, 1514, Kunstmuseum Basel; The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, Bernard van Orley, c. 1514–1515, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Titian, c. 1515; Head of John the Baptist, Hans Baldung Grien, 1516, National Gallery of Art