THIS 300-year-old painting is believed to prove that aliens were present at the baptism of Jesus Christ. By Sean Martin 05:01, Sat, Sep 16, 2017 | UPDATED: 10:42, Sat, Sep 16, 2017 ...

The Baptism of Christ, (painting) Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Object Details artist Perugino Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 70 ...

David Rives, a Christian author and columnist, reflects on Matthew 3:17, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." This verse is from the story of Jesus' baptism.

The central event is the painting’s theme: Jesus is baptized by John in Jordan. But, in the middle upper right, we are taken back to the time before Jesus’ baptism: John is preaching to the crowd.

Baptism of Christ signed and dated lower left: filippo falciatore f. 1765 oil on copper copper: 15 ¾ by 21 ⅝ in.; 40.0 by 54.9 cm. ... has connected the present painting with Falciatore's 1768 ...

Left: David Hockney standing beside his painting My Parents (1977), in the same year that he created it, with Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ (around 1437–45) depicted in the mirror.

In Duccio’s painting, the Christ child tenderly touches his mother’s face, ... In “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus’s baptism happens just before he is driven into the desert to be tempted by Satan. That is quite a scene-change. At this point in the Gospel, Luke is working at speed: the ...

In The Baptism of Christ, the most written about possibility is the stillness that Piero achieved. By contrast, think of Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43), and the impossibility ...

Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (15th Century). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Baptism now speaks much more profoundly of the covenant fulfilled in the death and resurrection of Christ. It also brings out more vividly the nature of faith as a dying and rising again to and ...