Birth of St John the Baptist by Luca Giordano (1670)

Painting of women attending a newborn in a canopied bed, with a bearded man in a red cloak and a stormy sky at left.

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Birth of St John the Baptist, Luca Giordano (1670), Hermitage Museum. Via artnap.com

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Luca Giordano's painting Birth of St John the Baptist, dated 1670 and held by the Hermitage Museum, shows a mother reclining in a canopied bed while attendant women tend to a newborn infant. A bearded man in a red cloak stands on a raised platform at left beneath a dramatic stormy sky, and a servant in a yellow garment holds up a white cloth in the foreground.

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Date

1670

Medium

Painting

Museum

Hermitage Museum

License

Public domain