John the Evangelist, Saint
- John the Evangelist, Saint
St. John the
Evangelist, the youngest of the
apostles, was called along with his brother James by Christ at Lake Genesareth. John was present at the
Transfiguration, Agony in the Garden, and
Crucifixion. After Christ's death, he went to
Rome where Emperor Domitian submitted him to martyrdom. Having escaped unscathed from a pot of boiling oil, he was exiled to the island of Patmos where, after experiencing visions, he wrote the Revelations, the final book in the Bible.
Correggio depicted St. John in one of those mystical moments in 1520-1524 in the
dome fresco of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma, and
Hans Memlinc (1479; Bruges, Hospital of St. John) did the same in one of the lateral panels of his
Altarpiece of the Virgin and Angels. After Domitian's death, St. John went to Ephesus where he also wrote his Gospel. He died there, the only apostle to do so of natural causes. Scenes from St. John's life are included in the
Peruzzi Chapel at
Santa Croce, Florence, rendered by
Giotto in the 1320s, and in the chapel of Filippo Strozzi at
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, painted by
Filippino Lippi in 1502.
Historical dictionary of Renaissance art.
Lilian H. Zirpolo.
2008.
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