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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most renowned paintings, Saint John the Baptist, is about to make an ... Salvator Mundi—a work which became art history’s most expensive artwork when it sold ...

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 ...

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 ...