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Recto, full view. 28 x 24 cm. Middle leaf, top panel: Deesis, Christ, Mary and John the Baptist. The Harbaville Triptych (Greek: Τρίπτυχο Αρμπαβίλ) is a Byzantine ivory triptych of the middle of the 10th century with a Deesis and other saints, now in the Louvre. Traces of colouring can still be seen on some figures.
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 1st 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 Yaḥyā ...
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The subject of the cartoon is a combination of two themes popular in Florentine painting of the fifteenth century: The Virgin and Child with John the Baptist and Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. The drawing is notable for its complex composition, demonstrating the alternation in the positioning of figures that is first apparent in Leonardo's ...
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 is placed in an elaborate baroque frame of carved, gilded and painted wood, with laurel leaf decorations. An engraving after the painting by Jan van Troyen was included in the Theatrum Pictorium, published in Antwerp in 1660 by the painter David Teniers the Younger.
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The choice of theme is linked to the chapel's dedication to John the Baptist. [1] On the left are Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and on the right are the infant John the Baptist with his parents Saint Elizabeth and Saint Zacharias. Zacharias holds a strange ampulla, possibly a censor.