#saint john the baptist
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish; 1577–1640)
ca. 1610–20
Oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Bust of a Youth(Saint John the Baptist?), Francesco Mochi (Italian, 1580-1654), 1625-405
Marble, on variegated black marble socle
40.5 × 33 × 29 cm
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, about 1869, Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, oil on canvas.
The episode is taken from the New Testament (Mark 6). Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee, entranced by Salome’s dancing, offers her the object of her wishes. At the prompting of her mother, Herodias, she requests the head of John the Baptist on a plate. Salome’s features are here thought to be based on those of the Princess Cantacuzène, who married Puvis de Chavannes in 1897. The figure of Herod standing on the right may be based on the novelist Anatole France.
The cross which Saint John the Baptist holds as the executioner prepares to strike is the focus of the composition. The static character of the design is mitigated by the figure of the executioner, recalling comparable figures inDelacroix and Chassériau.https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pierre-cecile-puvis-de-chavannes-the-beheading-of-saint-john-the-baptist
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Jacopo Robusti (Il Tintoretto), Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine, Augustine, Mark, and John the Baptist, c. 1549-50
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Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene, c. 1525
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Priúsquam te formárem in útero, novi te: et ántequam exíres de ventre, sanctificávi te, Et prophétam in géntibus dedi te.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; And I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nations.
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Saint John the Baptist in Meditation by Hieronymus Bosch, 1489-1499 (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid)
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