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# John the Forerunner
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ioann-predtecha/
- Published: 2025-06-24T18:30:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:39.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Museums

John the Forerunner. Icon from the iconostasis of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Ferapontov Monastery. 1490s or 1502-1503.

Attributed to Dionisius, the first Russian icon painter of secular status

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