Baptism & Ministry
The baptism in the Jordan, the calling of the apostles and the Sermon on the Mount — the start of Jesus's public life.
7 moments in this segment.
- — The Temptation in the Wilderness. Christ resists the devil after forty days in the desert, in Duccio's early Sienese panel. (Duccio, c. 1310)
- — The Baptism of Christ. John baptizes Jesus in the Jordan as the Spirit descends, in Piero della Francesca's still, luminous panel. (Piero della Francesca, c. 1450)
- — Verrocchio's Baptism. on which the young Leonardo is said to have painted an angel. (Verrocchio & Leonardo, c. 1475)
- — The Calling of the Apostles. Christ calls fishermen to follow him, in Ghirlandaio's fresco in the Sistine Chapel. (Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1481)
- — The Calling of Saint Matthew. A shaft of light summons the tax collector Matthew, in Caravaggio's revolutionary canvas in Rome. (Caravaggio, c. 1600)
- — Christ the Good Shepherd. The parable of the shepherd who seeks the lost sheep, a central image of Christ's teaching, here by Murillo. (Murillo, c. 1660)
- — The Sermon on the Mount. Christ preaches the Beatitudes to the multitude, in Bloch's 19th-century Danish painting. (Carl Heinrich Bloch, 1877)
