Ecole moscovite, 1570 - Head of St. Jean-Baptiste in a section - fine art print

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The piece of art was painted by the painter Ecole moscovite in 1570. The 450 year-old original version of the work of art had the size: Height: 31 cm, Width: 27 cm. The artwork's inscription is: Registration - Registration Russian, top, red. The artpiece can be viewed in in the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris's digital art collection, which is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement. This classic art public domain artpiece is provided with courtesy of Petit Palais Paris.Creditline of the artwork: . Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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• Printed poster (canvas material): Our poster is a printed flat cotton canvas paper with a nice structure on the surface. A print poster is optimally appropriate for placing your art copy with a customized frame. Please keep in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of approximately 2-6cm round about the painting to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating on top): The print on acrylic glass, often named a plexiglass print, will change your chosen original artwork into beautiful décor.
• The canvas print: The UV printed canvas stretched on a wood frame. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, which implies that it is quite simple to hang the Canvas print without the support of extra wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suited for all types of walls in your home.
• Aluminium dibond print (metal): Aluminium Dibond prints are prints on metal with an impressive effect of depth. The Aluminium Dibond Print is the best start to fine prints made with alu. For the Direct Aluminium Dibond option, we print the artwork on the surface of the white-primed aluminum composite. The bright and white parts of the original artwork shimmer with a silky gloss but without glow. The colors are vivid and luminous, details are crisp, and the print has a a matte look you can literally feel. The direct UV print on aluminium is the most popular entry-level product and is a modern way to showcase fine art prints, because it puts 100% of the viewer’s focus on the replica of the artwork.

Important legal note: We try whatever we can in order to describe our products in as much detail as possible and to display them visually in our shop. Still, the tone of the printing material and the print result can differ to a certain extent from the representation on your screen. Depending on your screen settings and the condition of the surface, not all colors are printed 100% realistically. Bearing in mind that all our art reproductions are printed and processed by hand, there might as well be minor discrepancies in the motif's size and exact position.

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The head of John the Baptist is placed in a cup. Nimbus, he eyes closed. His thick hair fell heavily off the food in big curly locks. His ears are elongated and curiously detached from the head. The cup is richly decorated with pearls and colored gemstones; it is placed on a dark green base where a linear perspective is suggested.

The theme shown in this icon is quite rare. Unlike Western religious painting that does not hesitate to describe realistically death, Byzantine iconography emphasizes the resurrection, the victory over death. Therefore, the scenes depicting dead saints are infrequent. They appear in Russia especially from the seventeenth century, when Western influence is strongly felt.

John the Baptist (Prophet; saint)

religious figure - Divinity, Decapitation, Head, Cup, Halo