Saint John the Baptist

Description

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.

Provenance

Trivulizo, Milan; Adolph Loewi (Los Angeles, California), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.

Saint John the Baptist

Angelo de Rossi

late 1500s

Accession Number

1952.276

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

Overall: 49.5 x 16.5 x 14.5 cm (19 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 11/16 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund