Home›Sacred Objects, Dress & Symbols›Sacred Art & Iconography›Saint John on Patmos (Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.189.3ab)Sacred Art & IconographySaint John on Patmos (Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.189.3ab)Tempera and gold ground on wood, Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art 64.189.3abCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Saint John on Patmos (Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.189.3ab)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sacred-art-iconography/saint-john-patmos-met-64-189-3ab.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Saint John on Patmos (Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.189.3ab). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sacred-art-iconography/saint-john-patmos-met-64-189-3abCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-saint-john-on-patmos-pacino-di-bonaguida, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Saint John on Patmos (Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.189.3ab)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sacred-art-iconography/saint-john-patmos-met-64-189-3ab}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXScriptural and Theological TraditionVerifiedA tempera and gold ground panel, one wing of a small devotional diptych, showing John the Evangelist seated on the island of Patmos, his traditional place of exile and the setting in which tradition holds he received the visions of the Book of Revelation. Painted by the Florentine artist Pacino di Bonaguida, active 1302 to circa 1340, in the early fourteenth century. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 64.189.3ab, a gift of Irma N. Straus in 1964.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsSubject MatterDevotional FunctionWell-attestedPacino di Bonaguida was among the leading manuscript illuminators and panel painters working in Florence in the generation after Giotto, in the early fourteenth century. A panel of this size and format would originally have formed one wing of a small portable diptych, hinged to a facing scene, most often a Crucifixion or a Madonna and Child, made for an individual owner's private prayer rather than for display in a church. 1Cross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithPatmos, Sacred Sites Well-attested This source names Patmos directly: "the Evangelist seated on the island of Patmos, his traditional place of exile and the setting in which tradition holds he received the visions of the Book of Revelation."Source Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)tier 1Belongs to TraditionChristianity, Religions Well-attested Source Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)tier 1DepictsJohn, Figures Well-attested The panel's directly named subject per the museum's own title, shown on Patmos, the traditional setting of his exile and visionary authorship of Revelation, matching the corroborating Wikipedia record's account of that tradition.Source Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)tier 1Additional Source John the Apostle (Wikipedia)tier 3Sources1. Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)tier 1Metropolitan Museum of ArtView the SourceJohn the Apostle (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaDepicts: JohnQuote, Depicts: JohnJohn was banished by the Roman authorities to the Greek island of Patmos, where, according to tradition, he wrote the Book of Revelation.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year