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De Grebber spent most of his career in Haarlem, west of Amsterdam. “St. John the Baptist and Herod Antipas” is a Baroque painting of John’s call to conversion and Herod’s consideration of it.
However, since the painting’s last cleaning in 1802, its surface darkened as several coatings of varnish aged and oxidized. Leonardo da Vinci's "St. John the Baptist," pre-restoration.
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A limewood sculpture of John the Baptist dating from 1510 will be returned to the U.S.-based heirs of a Jewish art-dealer couple persecuted by the Nazis, the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said.
The Getty Museum outgunned other bidders at Sotheby’s London today to buy a nearly life-size limewood sculpture of St. John the Baptist that was carved in the early 16th century, paying almost a ...
This image of St John the Baptist was the last painting that Leonardo produced, and it was in his possession when he died. It is one of only a few that we can be absolutely certain the master ...
Art conservationist Patricia Leavengood applies an epoxy with dry pigment to a crack in the arm of Jeff Koons' sculpture "Saint John the Baptist" during a restoration process after the statue was ...
A sign placed near a brand-new replica sculpture of Michelangelo’s Pietà at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Costa Mesa reads “Please do not touch her.
Object Details artist Galli, Rizzardo Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 482 [Exhibited under heading: "Sculpture."] United States Centennial Commission. International Exhibition. 1876 ...
His “Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St. John the Baptist” dates from the early 1630s. This huge oil painting (9 feet by 30 feet) can be seen in Madrid’s Prado Museum.