Young Saint John and the Lamb

Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Saint John and the Lamb

Giuseppe PiamontiniLinkedCulture matchlcp-5b1175037446

Date
c. 1680–1700
Medium
bronze
Culture
Italy, Florence
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
119753

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John the Baptist is often accompanied by a lamb as a sign of his intimacy with Christ, the Lamb of God. The depiction of children embracing animals is a motif from antiquity that Piamontini would have known.

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Credit line
Bequest of James Parmelee
Provenance
James Parmelee, 1855-1931 (Washington, DC), upon his death, held in trust by the estate. | Estate of James Parmelee, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1940.

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