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Saint John the Baptist
designed by Angelo de Rossi (Italian)
cast by Giuseppe de Levis (Italian, 1605)
late 1500s
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 49.5 x 16.5 x 14.5 cm (19 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Verona, 16th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Saint John wears the hair shirt he fashioned during his retreat into the wilderness to live humbly. He clenches a device of baptism, a shell to pour the water.
