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Jesus visiting Maria by Jorge Afonso (c. 1515), from the main altarpiece of the Madre de Deus church in Lisbon, now in the National Museum of Ancient Art. Jorge Afonso (c. 1470 – 1540) was a noted Portuguese Renaissance painter. Jorge Afonso was nominated royal painter in 1508 by King Manuel I and again in 1529 by John III.
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."
H. The Head of John the Baptist (Solari) The Head of St John the Baptist (Bellini) The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel; Holy Family (El Greco, Museo de Santa Cruz)
The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and Saint John; Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Bellini, Berlin) Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Bellini, Venice) The Dead Christ with Angels; Death of the Virgin (van der Goes) Death of the Virgin Mary of Košátky; Deesis with Saint Paul and Saint Catherine; Delivery of the Keys; Diptych by ...
In 1602, he had been among the nine painters who founded the Brotherhood of St. Luke, a confraternity uniting Lisbon's painters, and in 1612, a delegation of 12 painters, led by Fernão Gomes (pintor) (a Portuguese Mannerist painter of Spanish origin, born in Alburquerque in 1548 and active in Lisbon until his death in 1612), petitioned the ...
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.
Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might have looked like as a kid. Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from ...
The Head of Saint John the Baptist presented to Salome is a circa 1609 oil on panel painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) executed shortly after his return to Antwerp after an eight year stay in Italy.