Saint John in the Desert
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He is changing clothes. A coral-red garment falls from his hand onto a white one already on the ground; over the other shoulder hangs the brown skin. Web Gallery of Art knows no other picture of John at this moment, undressing for the desert.
The Gallery's reading is that the body is a Greek type, made a religious being by the golden halo; the bare mountains stress the desolation of the place he has chosen. The halo is a gold plate, edged red. Cover it with a thumb and an antique nude is left, undressing in the hills.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, artist page 'Domenico Veneziano', entry for Saint John in the Desert, 1943.4.48; read 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, 'Saint John in the Desert', Domenico Veneziano, 1943.4.48, page meta description · Google Arts & Culture, 'Saint John in the Desert', Domenico Veneziano, carrying the National Gallery of Art's overview text · Web Gallery of Art, 'St John in the Wilderness (predella 2)', Domenico Veneziano · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection, 'Saint John in the Desert', K1331
And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit: and was in the deserts until the day of his manifestation to Israel.
Luke 1:80 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 16,292 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.