Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness  1600

The subject of this fine picture is based on the Gospel of John: "The next day John [the Baptist] seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." The event preceded the baptism of Jesus by John. Annibale launched the vogue for landscapes in which nature is transformed by the imagination into an idyllic setting for re...