The Baptism of Christ is an oil on oak wood painting executed c. 1515 by the Flemish Renaissance painter Joachim Patinir, which is now in the collection of the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna.

[1] The work depicts the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan by Saint John the Baptist, as described in Matthew 3:13–17.

John refused at first, saying he was unworthy, but was persuaded by Jesus to carry out the baptism.

As Jesus afterwards rose up from the water the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God in the form of a descending dove.

And a voice from heaven said: "This is my son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”[2] This article about a sixteenth-century painting is a stub.