Jab, Hit, Then StopWe saw examples in a previous post of the medieval and renaissance portrayals of the young St. John the Evangelist as long-haired and delicately featured. Mistaking St. John in Leonardo's Last Supper for a woman is a tourist's error.
Now here's another Leonardo. Take a guess: who is this lovely young creature?
posted by The Opinionated Homeschooler at 10:34 AM
8 Comments:
John the Baptist?
Correct! Bonus points for not guessing Mary Magdalene.
I hate it when Jesus is portrayed as an adolescent girl-boy with peach fuzz on his chin....as if the Son of God isn't manly enough to grow actual facial hair.
And I would have guessed this vision of loveliness to be Esau or Goliath (if he weren't pointing upward) or, at the very least, Samson.
John the Baptist was my guess as well. Something about that finger...
Just checking in, Sharon. That's not quite the rugged picture I have of John the Baptist in my mind. He looks a little too pretty to eat locusts and live in the wilderness IMHO.
On second thought, are we sure this isn't one of the Muses with chest hair?
Darn. I was going to go with Leonardo DiCaprio.
I'm so glad I'd finished my coffee before reading that.
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