Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness
Giovanni di Paolo · 1455–60

Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness

Giovanni di Paolo

Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness

1455–60

Giovanni di Paolo's 'Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness' (c. 1454) is a Sienese Renaissance panel from a predella depicting the life of the Baptist. The small figure of the young saint walks out of a city gate into a fantastically patterned landscape of stylised pink and green hills — one of the most beloved early 15th-century images of Christian pilgrimage. Tempera on panel, Art Institute of Chicago.

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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago