Donation Options Search Search Search An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a ...

In the scheme of Advent Sunday Gospel readings, the First Sunday always looks forward to the Second Coming and the Fourth Sunday always focuses on the Blessed Virgin and some aspect of the ...

Tradition holds that today St. John the Baptist was beheaded. Today, we mark his martyrdom. The account of his murder is today’s Gospel: Mark 6:17-29. St. John the Baptist was, of course ...

But is there any evidence? Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In the Bible, Herod Antipas ordered the Christian ...

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 ...

Hendrix is no Thomas Kinkade. Which means he gets us a lot closer to the Bible. You might think it childish that every week at Grace and Peace Fellowship, a PCA church in St. Louis, John Hendrix ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Church of Decapitation of John the Baptist at Tolchkovo ... but they also convey the relation of the art to people — pilgrims, peasants and townsfolk. Of special interest are Vereshchagin ...

These works depict scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, a first-century preacher ... depicting John’s birth and baptism. Per the Art Newspaper, the other murals were likely destroyed ...

This makes art's treatment easier. Almost any mixture of feelings will do. In The Beheading of St John the Baptist the balance probably favours degradation. The spouting chicken-victim isn't much ...

But according to the Art Newspaper, recent dendrochronological ... conservators believe that one of the murals illustrates the execution of John the Baptist, the preacher thought to have baptised ...