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Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c. 1465 – c. 1495), also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Gheerrit, or any other diminutive form of Gerald, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
John the Baptist in the Wilderness is a painting by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, from c. 1485. It is in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, in Berlin. It was a mediation aid for pilgrims. History. It is not known when the panel was painted.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans (flourished c. 1475–95) was a North Netherlandish painter of religious subjects, notable for his harmonious fusion of the elements of the landscape.
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Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c. 1465 – c. 1495), also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Gheerrit, or any other diminutive form of Gerald, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Geertgen depicts the burial of St. John in the background, while Herodias is seen hiding his head in the palace garden, stretched out behind the tomb. According to medieval legend, Emperor....
- Geertgen Tot Sint Jans
In Geertgen tot Sint Jans …on stylistic grounds, such as St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Virgin and Child, The Resurrection of Lazarus, The Virgin’s Kindred, Adoration of the Magi, and The Man of Sorrows. The Nativity at Night by Geertgen is remarkable for its rendering of chiaroscuro. Read More
Geertgen, tot Sint Jans, approximately 1460-1495. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56033 [retrieved May 21, 2024].
