Sunday, August 21, 2011



Vincent Juan Masip aka Juan de Juanes or Joan de Joanes (c. 1523-1579), St. John the Baptist (1560).

Considered to be the premier painter of the Valencian School, Juan never painted a profane subject and took communion before starting a work. Juan de Juanes depicts St. John the Baptist as a rustic, with scarlet cloak and incorporates all four of the Biblically based iconographic devices in the painting.


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