It was equally addressed to Herod Antipas, whose introduction to John the Baptist is shown in this painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Grebber (ca. 1600-1652/53).

Art Institute's elaborately displayed tooth, thought to belong to John the Baptist, turns out not to The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th century, too young ...

The newly restored "St. John the Baptist," by Leonardo da Vinci. C2RMF/Clot Thomas. Earlier this year, the Louvre Museum in Paris threw parts of the art world into an uproar when it announced its ...

John the Baptist rejects this sense of entitlement, “Do not say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones” (Mt ...

Dr. Anathea Portier-Young explores how sacred art, scripture, and sensory experience mediate divine encounter and ethical transformation. Drawing on the insights of mystic Evelyn Underhill and ...

Art World Conservators Say Murals in a Bavarian Church Date Back 1,000 Years, Making Them Among the Oldest Christian Artworks in Europe. For centuries, the images were covered by layers of paint.

Though Jesus exceeded Moses in teaching authority, his miraculous acts are patterned after his prophetic forebears Elijah and Elisha. John the Baptist is commonly compared to Elijah in the New ...

Zechariah is dumb. So, when asked what name he would give his son, he wrote on the tablet—John. His tongue was loosened and he burst into a “prophetic exhortation” about the greatness of God.