# Incidents from the Life of St John the Baptist \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Tempera on panel ## Commentary This panel depicts the scenes The Birth of St John the Baptist, and The Virgin Mary Presents Jesus to St Elisabeth and St John the Baptist as a Boy. It is an example of Romanesque painting in which uniformly intense colours were set alongside one another to create strong contrasts. The figures and the background architecture are separated by strongly coloured surfaces. Red, green and blue follow one another alternately, without any reference to the depiction of a real wall, coloured in a unified tone. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [A Curious Scene]() - [Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel]() - [Adoration of St Mark]() - [Allegorical Portrait of Dante]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare]() - [Altarpiece of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()