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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.
In Herzen's lifetime the major parts of the book were translated into English (1855), German (1855) and French (1860-1862). [1] My Past and Thoughts gives a panoramic view on the social and political life in Russian Empire as well as the European West of the mid-19th century.
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 [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 ...
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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 ...
My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen by Alexander Herzen. Chatto & Windus, London, 1968. (Four volumes) (Revised edition) Ends and Beginnings by Alexander Herzen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985. (Revision of Constance Garnett's translation) ISBN 0192816047; Olaus Magnus: A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555 by ...