“St. John the Baptist and Herod Antipas” is a ... details John’s sartorial style; and (c) the painting clearly depicts Jesus’ question when he asks what people went out in the desert ...

The scene is truly like great literature, and as I read it I see Caravaggio’s painting in ... Or is he in fact John the Baptist, back from the dead? John and Jesus are, of course, not the ...

at the Art Institute of Chicago holding a tooth long thought to belong to John the Baptist. John the Baptist was one of Jesus’ contemporaries in the 1 st century. The bible says John was ...

A previously unknown, 1,500-year-old painting of Christ’s face has ... which is probably John the Baptist. “The location of the scene — above the [church’s] crucifix-shaped Baptist font ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

There is reasonably good historical evidence that John the Baptist, whom Christians believe baptized his cousin Jesus, did exist, said Paul Middleton, a senior lecturer in Biblical studies at the ...

Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi ... he was the man who baptized Jesus. Often called the forerunner of Christ, the Bible ...

Jesus Christ, together with his cousin St John the Baptist. Displaying warm and playful moments between the infants and the Madonna, the paintings are said to tell the story of an imaginary ...

The gospels indicate that the early ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus both took place in Judea, in the southern portion of Israel, near Jerusalem. But John was arrested by Herod Antipas ...

The newly restored "St. John the Baptist," by Leonardo da Vinci. C2RMF/Clot Thomas Earlier this year, the Louvre Museum in Paris threw parts of the art world into an uproar when it announced its ...