Titian - St. John the Baptist 1542
St. John the Baptist 1542
201x134cm oil on canvas
Galleria dell Accademia, Venice, Italy
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Saint John the Baptist is a 1540 painting of John the Baptist by Titian, with his traditional attributes of the Lamb of God and a staff. In the background is a Giorgionesque landscape with the river Jordan, in which Christ was baptised.