Saint John the Baptist

Cleveland Museum of Art

Saint John the Baptist

Angelo de Rossi

Date
late 1500s
Medium
bronze
Culture
Italy, Verona, 16th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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