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John the Baptist

1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher
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Deutsch: Johannes der Täufer, Prediger in Palästina um das Jahr 30, eine zentralen Figuren des Christentums, des Islams, des Mandäismus und der Evangelien.
English: John the Baptist was a preacher in Palestine around 30 AD. He is mentioned in the New Testament.

Places and ancient imagesEdit

  • Ancient graffito possibly featuring John the Baptist

  • St John ba Harim, Ein Karem, Israel. John's birthplace.

  • St John ba Harim, Ein Karem, Israel. John's birthplace.

PaintingsEdit

  • Encaustic icon of John the Baptist, IV c.

  • Byzantine mosaic Deesis in Hagia Sophia, XII c.

  • Fresco in Gracanica monastery, Serbia, XIII c.

  • By Jan van Eyck, fragment of Ghent altar, 1432

  •    By Marco Palmezzano

  • By Hieronymus Bosch, 1504-1505

  • Fragment of Isenheim Altarpiece, by Mathis Grünewald, 1512-1516

  • By Leonardo, 1513-1516

  •    By Tiziano, 1542

  •    By Paolo Farinati

  • By Caravaggio, 1598

  • By Bartolomé González y Serrano, c.1600.

  • By El Greco, 1600-1605

Russian iconsEdit

  • By Andrey Rublev

  • Fragment

  • By Feofan Grek

  • «Angel of desert»

  • John preaching in hell after his death and before Christ's Harrowing of Hell. Fragment of icon

  • Palekh icon, XIX c.

  • Head of John the Baptist

Rogier van der Weyden's «Johannes-Altar», b.1445Edit

  • Naming of John the Baptist

  • Baptism

  • Execution

Paintings of the LifeEdit

Birth and youthEdit

  • Russian icon, XV c.

  • By Domenico Ghirlandaio, fresco in Cappella Tornabuoni, c. 1486-90

  • By Jacopo Pontormo, 1526

  • The Holy Family with Saint Elisabteh and the little Saint John the Baptist to whom the Child Jesus gives a reed cross, Jacques Blanchard, around 1630

John in desertEdit

  • By Domenico Veneziano, c. 1445

  • By Giovanni di Paolo, 1454

  • By Berner Nelkenmeister, c. 1495

PreachingEdit

  •    By Francesco Bassano 1570

  • «The Appearance of Christ before the people», by A.Ivanov, 1837-1857

  • Fragment

  • «Landscape with St. John the Baptist praching», by P. Brueghel

  • Pieter Fransz de Grebber, «John the Baptist preaching before Herod», XVII c.

  • Saint John The Baptist Preaching In The Wilderness by Anton Raphael

  • John the Baptist Pointing to Christ by Federico Barocci

Baptism of ChristEdit

  • Byzantine mosaic, Daphni, c.1100

  • Russian icon

  • By Piero della Francesca, c. 1440-1450

  • By Verroccio or da Vinci, c. 1475

  •    By Cima da Conegliano, 1493

  • By Francesco Francia, 1509

  • By Tintoretto, XVI c.

  • By El Greco, 1596-1600

  • By Guido Reni, 1622-1623

ExecutionEdit

  • Russian icon

  • By Memling, 1479

  • By Juan Flandes, c. 1496-1499

  • By Caravaggio

  • By Caravaggio, 1608

  • Tailpiece to the Gospel of Matthew. Philippe De Loutherbourg

  •    (1610) by Palma il Giovane

Salome with headEdit

  • From Sinope Gospels, c.550

  • By Juan de Flandes, 1496

  • By Lucas Cranach d. Ä., 1531

  • By Berruguete, c. 1512-1517

  • By Tiziano, c.1560

  • By Tiziano

  • By Guercino, 1637

  • By Rubens, 17 c.

  • By Gustave Moreau, 1875

  • By Franz von Stuck, 1906

Burial and relicsEdit

  • Burial of beheaded John by his students. Fragment of Russian icon

  • 3d finding of John the Baptist's head. Fragment of Russian icon

  • Photo of John's head, San Silvestro in Capite, Rome

  • Photo of German sculpture

  • Prophet Yahya's Shrine inside the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus

  • Prophet Yahya's tomb in the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus

SculpturesEdit

  • St. John the Baptist, 1480, Bodemuseum Berlin

  •    By Jacopo Sansovino 1540

  • By Rodin

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