Kissing babies: Saintly or sexual?
Mauritshuis, The Hague in long-term loan to museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht. ‘The Infants Christ and Saint John the Baptist Embracing and Kissing’ (c. 1530) Joos van Cleve (c. 1485 – 1540-41) Oil on oak, 39 × 58 cm In the sixteenth century the Antwerp painter Joos van Cleve and his workshop pupils made ten versions of […]