Every Day a Painting for June 29, 2026

The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist (1335)

Giovanni Baronzio

Tempera on Panel. Rimini, Gothic.

Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

This panel, along with The Baptism of Christ and Madonna and Child with Five Angels were once part of the same altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist (see Reconstruction ). Several more componen…

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