St John the Evangelist on Pathmos
by CANO, Alonso, Oil on canvas, 218 x 153 cm
In this painting the Evangelist is represented as a youthful visionary in a characteristic Baroque, diagonal position, in a pose that returns later in the Romantic portraits of poets, as a pose appropriate for the sacred moment of inspiration.
There is a variant of this painting in the Prado, Madrid.