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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y: St John the Evangelist at Patmos

🖼 St John the Evangelist at Patmos, c. 1618
Oil on canvas
135 × 102 cm
London, United Kingdom

Golden light bathes the saint's ecstatic face as he gazes heavenward, quill poised over manuscript, with eagle and rocky landscape rendered in Velázquez's masterful chiaroscuro. The work captures spiritual rapture through psychological intensity, establishing the artist's command of religious emotion and portraiture.

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