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The Sermon of St John the Baptist
1566 · Oil on wood · Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), Budapest (record published by the museum on Google Arts & Culture)
For the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist · 24 June
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Find the man in light blue with his arms crossed, standing a little apart from the crowd. Vilmos Tátrai, writing for the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, identifies Him as Christ, and says the Baptist's pointing hand follows his words about one who stands among them unknown. God has come to the sermon as one more listener. Around them Pieter Bruegel packs the crowd the museum lists: nobles, priests, soldiers, peasants, Spaniards, Turks. A nobleman in black gives his hand to a fortune teller in a striped blanket. Beyond, a river bends past a church and a walled city, suggesting, Tátrai says, a place of baptism.
Sources: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Vilmos Tátrai, 'When Saint John the Baptist Visited the Netherlands', Google Arts & Culture story, read 2026-09-24 · Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 'The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist', inv. 51.2829, Google Arts & Culture record, read 2026-09-24
John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.
John 1:26 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)