The authorship of the Johannine works has been debated by biblical scholars since at least the 2nd century AD. The debate focuses mainly on the identity of the author, as well as the date and location
El Greco's c. 1605 painting Saint John the Evangelist shows the traditional author of the Johannine works as a young man.
Saint John on Patmos by Hans Baldung Grien, 1511.
Saint John of Patmos, by Jean Fouquet
Zampieri St John Evangelist
John of Patmos is the name traditionally given to the author of the Book of Revelation. Revelation 1:9 states that John was on Patmos, an Aegean island off the coast of Roman Asia, where according to
Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos by Hieronymus Bosch, 1488
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640)