Cleveland Museum of Art
Young Saint John and the Lamb
Giuseppe Piamontini
- Date
- c. 1680–1700
- Medium
- bronze
- Culture
- Italy, Florence, 17th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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