The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist
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Zacharias cannot speak, so he writes. He braces a scroll on one knee, brows furrowed, and what he writes can be read: NOMEN EST IOHANNES, the name is John. Luke says the neighbours wanted the boy called Zacharias after his father. The man beside him gestures at him with both hands.
Boskovits notes that the Naming, often a scene of its own, is here pushed inside the Birth and set at the front, with the Circumcision at the far right. Elizabeth, under a red coverlet, is behind them. The front of the panel belongs to a man writing a name.
Sources: Miklós Boskovits, 'The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1335', in Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Systematic Catalogue, online edition 2016 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist', 1952.5.68 · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection, K1435 · Google Arts & Culture, National Gallery of Art, 'The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist'
And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his name. And they all wondered.
Luke 1:63 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,553 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.