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Description: | This scene shows Christ being baptised by John the Baptist in the river Jordan. The picture is a copy after an altarpiece predella panel painted for the church of San Pietro in Perugia in 1495 by Perugino, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. Perugino's work was much in vogue in the nineteenth century. The National Gallery in London possesses another copy after this painting (NG1431). | Subjects: | religion (Baptism of Christ) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Perugino (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1450-1523) Æ After Previously attributed to Viti, Timoteo (Italian painter, 1469-1523) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8859... | Go to resource |
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