The Gospel Cycle
The Baptism and Ministry of Christ in Painting
The Jordan, the wilderness, the wedding at Cana and the supper table: the public years between childhood and arrest.
35 paintings of Christ, dated 1470–1889. Painters with the most works here: Gerard David (3), Tintoretto (3) and Bartolome Esteban Murillo (2).
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The Baptism of ChristAndrea del VerrocchioFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristAndrea MantegnaFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristBartholomeus SprangerFrom$350
Saint John the Baptist Pointing to ChristBartolome Esteban MurilloFrom$350
Baptism of ChristBartolome Esteban MurilloFrom$350
Head of Bearded Man (Study for The Baptism of Christ )Camille CorotFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristCarl BlochFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristCima da ConeglianoFrom$350
Baptism of ChristElisabetta SiraniFrom$350
Christ’s triumphal entry into JerusalemFélix Louis LeullierFrom$350
The Baptism of Christ (central section of Triptych of Jan des Trompes)Gerard DavidFrom$350
The Transfiguration of ChristGerard DavidFrom$360
The Transfiguration of Christ (central panel)Gerard DavidFrom$350
The Baptism of Christ with a DonorGiovanni Battista MoroniFrom$350
Transfiguration of ChristGiovanni BelliniFrom$350
Baptism of Christ, St. John AltarpieceGiovanni BelliniFrom$360
The Baptism of ChristGuido ReniFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristHendrick GoltziusFrom$360
Christ in the WildernessIvan KramskoyFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristJoachim PatinirFrom$350
Baptism of JesusJusepe de RiberaFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristLeonardo da VinciFrom$350
The Transfiguration of ChristLorenzo LottoFrom$350
The second view of the altar. St Anthony Visiting St Paul the Hermit in the Desert (left), The Temptation of St. Anthony (right). Central part are carved figures of St. August, St. Anthony, St. Jerome; bottom part Jesus with 12 Apostles.Matthias GrünewaldFrom$350
Christ and the Disciples Going out into the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last SupperNikolai GeFrom$350
Baptism of ChristOrazio GentileschiFrom$350
Transfiguration of ChristPaolo VeroneseFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristPeter Paul RubensFrom$350
Baptism of ChristPietro PeruginoFrom$350
Saint John the Baptist Baptizing Christ in the JordanSalvator RosaFrom$350
Saint John the Baptist Revealing Christ to the DisciplesSalvator RosaFrom$350
Angels Ministering to Christ in the WildernessThomas ColeFrom$350
The Temptation of ChristTintorettoFrom$350
The Baptism of ChristTintorettoFrom$350
Baptism of ChristTintorettoFrom$350
Between the infancy and the Passion sit the baptism in the Jordan, the calling of the disciples, the miracles and the Transfiguration. Painters treated this stretch far more sparsely than the two ends of the story, and the pictures that do exist are often narrow in shape — they were predella panels, the small horizontal scenes running under a large altarpiece, where the whole ministry might be given four boxes.