# St John the Baptist

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SANTACROCE, Girolamo da](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/santacroce-girolamo-da-rb60f5919cae008>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 69 x 46 cm

## Commentary

This panel is a free copy after the central panel of a triptych by the Bellini workshop \(once in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, destroyed during World War II.\) The frontality of the figure is a witness to the fact that in Venice, so closely associated with Byzantinum over the centuries, oriental influences appeared from time to time even during the flowering of the Renaissance.

## Related artworks

- [Christ and the Woman of Samaria](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/santacroce-girolamo-da-rb60f5919cae008/christ-and-the-woman-of-samaria-re5a03614f72207>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)