Titian
St. John the Almsgiver

1545-50
Church of San Giovanni Eleemosynario

With neither attributes nor imagination, the painting pictures John the Almsgiver as, um, giving alms. Nothing even suggests his status as Patriarch of Alexandria.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.