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)
Zampieri St John Evangelist
John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. General
John of Patmos
…anti-Christian persecution under the Roman emperor Domitian. Christian tradition has considered the Book of Revelation's writer to be the same person as John the Apostle, though some Christian scholars since medieval times have separated the disciple from the writer of Revelation. A minority of ancient clerics and…
The Apostle Saint John Evangelist by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1611)
John the Apostle, detail of the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th century
Armenian icon of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, 13th century by the Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin
John the Evangelist and Peter by Albrecht Dürer (1526)