Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint John the Baptist
Master of the Saint John Statuettes
- Date
- c. 1500–1525
- Medium
- terracotta with traces of polychromy
- Culture
- Italy, Florence, 16th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This statuette belongs to a group of terracotta sculptures representing David (from the OldTestament) and Saint John (from the New Testament) produced by a still unidentified Florentine artist and his studio in the late 1400s and early 1500s. Giventheir scale, it seems likely that these sculptures were intended for use in private homes rather than churches.
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