Saint John the Baptist | |
Artist: | Titian |
Year: | 1540 |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 201 |
Width Metric: | 134 |
Museum: | Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
Saint John the Baptist is a c. 1540 painting of John the Baptist by Titian, with his traditional attributes of the Lamb of God and a staff.[1] It is part of the collection of the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, Italy.
In the background of the painting is a landscape with the river Jordan, in which Jesus was baptised.