A subject
Story of John the Baptist
Matthew 3:1-1716411 hand
Opened by a notation lookup, not by an editor. Iconclass 73C1 glosses this subject as “story of John the Baptist (Matthew 3; Mark 1:4-11; Luke 3:1-22; John 1:19-34)”, and this library reads the Douay-Rheims, where the passage stands at Matthew 3:1-17. Iconclass states 4 references for this subject; the first one this corpus holds is used.
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
Matthew 3:1
An editor has read one picture against this passage and confirmed it.
The hands
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Nicolas Poussin1641/1642The Baptism of ChristSamuel H. Kress Collection. CC0-1.0Poussin's Baptism of Christ, from the Seven Sacraments. The Baptist is the hand pouring, so the picture stands in his story as well as in Christ's.
The passage
17 verses1And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
2And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
4And the same John had his garment of camels’ hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
5Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan:
6And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?
8Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
10For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.
11I indeed baptize you in the water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him.
14But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
15And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.
16And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.
17And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
In the stacks
Not yet checked6Suggested by an AI model from books the library holds but has not yet set as editions. A passage here is a place to read, not a citation.
The Works of Aurelius Augustine, a New Translation, Vol. IX- On Christian Doctrine, the Enchiridon
320 ON CATECHISING. : (CHAP, XXIII. all earthly ills which He was inculcating as things needful to be endured ; so that neither might our happiness be sought for in the former class, nor our unhappiness be apprehended in the latter. For being born of a mother who, although she conceived without being touched by man and always remained thus untouched, in virginity conceiving, in virginity bringing forth, in virginity, dying, had nevertheless been espoused to “a handicraftsman, He extinguished all the inflated pride of carnal nobility. Moreover, being born
0.73The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things which they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.” We now
0.73Religious art in France, 13 century
large and ripe as it it had grown for a year. And when the soldiers of Herod who sought the Child for to kill Him, came to that labourer who was reaping his wheat, they asked him if he had seen a woman carrying a child. ' Yes,' said he, ' when I was sowing my corn.' Then the murderers thought that he knew not what he was saying for this corn had been growing for nigh on a year, and they turned back."2 These two incidents, the first taken
0.72Religious art in France, 13 century
3 See for example Honorius of Autun, Spec. Eccles., 5 Bourasse and Marchand, Vitraux de Tours, pi. VII. Patrol., clxxii., col. 837 (he calls the tree " persicus "), At Chartres on a capital in the west porch ; the tree is not seen, but the Virgin holds a palm. 218 OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY There is in work of that date practically no trace of certain legends which later became popular, and which from the end of the fourteenth century were a frequent source of inspiration for artists, and
0.72Sacred and legendary art, volume 1 (of 2)
John, the most distinguished of the evangelists, and the most beloved of the disciples of our Lord. Of him sufficient is known to convey a distinct impression of his personal character, and an idea of what his personal appearance may have been, supposing this outward semblance to have harmonised with the inward being. He was the son of the fisherman Zebedee, and, with his brother James, among the first followers of the Saviour. He is emphatically called ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved;’ a preference which he merited, not only from
0.71Religious art in France, 13 century
2 John the Baptist is missing in the window at p. 435. 195 RELIGIOUS ART IN FRANCE meaning of the parable of the Good Samaritan surely stands out plainly enough to make it unnecessary to seek for anything beyond its lesson in charity. But a glance at the windows at Sens (Fig. 102) or at Bourges1 shows that the mediaeval artist thought otherwise. He widened the meaning of the story of the poor traveller who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho until it became the story of humanity itself. That
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How this subject was made
The subject was opened by an Iconclass notation. The library's map reads 73C1, whose own gloss is story of John the Baptist (Matthew 3; Mark 1:4-11; Luke 3:1-22; John 1:19-34)
, as Matthew 3:1-17; a picture reaches this page when the notation a cataloguer put on it resolves here, whether the cataloguer wrote the notation down or wrote a subject heading that carries one. The authority is iconclass.org/73C1.
Connections
Painted
- The Baptism of Christ1641Poussin's Baptism of Christ, from the Seven Sacraments. The Baptist is the hand pouring, so the picture stands in his story as well as in Christ's.