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Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. This is our third and

final episode talking about the collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

I've entitled this a

miscellaneous as we'll be looking at a variety of paintings. The first

painting we're going to consider is a painting by the Italian painter

Matia Preti. His life spanned the 17th century. He was born in 1613 and died in 1699.

This particular painting by Preti is from 1656. He titled it St St. John the Baptist, rebuking Herod. In this painting he employed many

of the Baroque strategies. It's a large scale. It is a very large impressive painting.

And he also used lighting and shading to tell a story.

In the center of the painting is John the Baptist and his face is very much illuminated

and off to the far corner of the painting sitting on his throne as

Herod a shadow crawls across his face he has his chin resting on his arm and he

looks absolutely bored as if he is about to

yawn. Pretty has him entirely apathetic. Here stands in front of him the Prophet

and John the Baptist's arm is raised and his

bony finger is pointed as he is calling Herod for his sin and Herod is entirely

apathetic to this prophet.

Also in this museum is one of many paintings

that Rembrandt did of the studies of Christ

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