Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), Braque Triptych, left panel, St John Baptist (1450)

Van der Weyden portrays a St. John the Baptist who is securely in middle age, somewhat thin. He wears a red garment, holds a book (Bible) and utters: “Ecce Agnus Dei qui tollit peccata mundi” (Behold the Lamb of God that will take away the sins of the world). The background is a typical Flemish landscape.

Carlo Crivelli (c. 1435 - c. 1495), St John the Baptist (1473)

A Renaissance painter with Late Gothic sensibilities, Carlo Crivelli presents an older, elongated, emaciated portrait of St. John the Baptist with long, flowing, golden locks. He wears the camel skin garment and holds a reed cross with a banner announcing “Behold, the Lamb of God” to which he points.