# Saint John the Baptist

- By: Angelo de Rossi (Italian)
- By: Giuseppe de Levis (Italian, 1605)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.276)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.276/1952.276_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.