St John the baptist at The National Art Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Human: 3D scan created with photogrammetry at the National Art Museum of Copenhagen using software Memento for scanning, Netfabb for cleaning, Blender for filling a hole, and Slic3r for verification. John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major figure in Christianity, Islam (known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya), the Bahá'í Faith, and Mandaeism. John is known for his unique practice of baptism for forgiveness of sins. Most scholars agree that John baptized Jesus. Scholars generally believe Jesus followed or was a disciple of John and several New Testament accounts report some of Jesus' early followers had previously been followers of John. John the Baptist is mentioned by Jewish historian Josephus. Some scholars maintain John was influenced by the semi-ascetic Essenes, who expected an apocalypse and practiced rituals corresponding strongly with baptism, although no direct evidence substantiates this. According to the New Testament, John anticipated a messianic figure greater than himself, and Jesus was the one whose coming John foretold. Christians commonly refer to John as the precursor or forerunner of Jesus, since John announces Jesus' coming. John is also identified with the prophet Elijah. Andrea di Cristoforo Bregno (1418–1506) was an Italian sculptor and architect of the Early Renaissance who worked in Rome from the 1460s and died just as the High Renaissance began.