POTTSVILLE – During the month she spent painting a mural of its patron saint, Kim Searle would occasionally slip into the sanctuary at St. John the Baptist Church for inspiration. There, in the soft ...

In 1936, an art dealer inexplicably sawed off the upper half of Cranach’s “Bowl With the Head of John the Baptist.” The lower half, showing the prophet’s severed head, found its way into the museum at ...

About The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is an oil painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio. Measuring 3.7 m by 5.2 m, it depicts th ...

Inside the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton, a quiet study room holds a historic piece of artwork older than the United States. "It's almost 500 years old.

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Giovanni Andrea Sirani (possibly after) depicts the dramatic climax of a moralizing biblical narrative through a Baroque-era lens. Salome with the Head of ...

"Orgagna (Andrea), Florence, 1329-1389. (Tempera, W.G.B.G. 15 x 37.) St. John the Baptist and St. Peter. Grand and stately figures, of high finish and perfect preservation. Specimens of the art of the ...