Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Usually St. John the Baptist is portrayed as a man in his mid-thirties, as per Biblical references. However, there are those artists who portray the saint much older. Rogier van der Weyden (1450) and also Carlo Crivelli (1473) present a St. John the Baptist who is somewhat older, well into middle age (See illustrations below).

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