This column capital dating from the early 12th century depicts the announcement to Zecharia that his wife Saint Elizabeth is pregnant. This capital can be found in the apse of he Basilica of Notre-Dame du Port in Clermont Ferrand.
Themed images for Zechariah.
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Medieval stained glass (1325-1339) depicting Zechariah in the clerestory windows of Saint Ouen, Rouen, France.
This late 15th century fresco (c1485-1490) in the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence is by Domenico Ghirlandaio, depicting the moment that Zechariah wrote the name John as the name of his son.
These four stained-glass panels in the quire clerestory of Gloucester Cathedral were designed and executed by Clayton and Bell, one of the foremost English glass studios of the Victorian era. The sequence depicts Zechariah and St Elizabeth, the parents of St John the Baptist, together with St John himself and St Simeon