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Saint John the Baptist

Saint John the Baptist

c. 1500–1525
(Italian)
Italy, Florence, 16th century
terracotta with traces of polychromy
Overall: 72.1 x 33 x 24 cm (28 3/8 x 13 x 9 7/16 in.)
Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.781
Location: 117A Italian Renaissance

Description

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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    Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Reproduced: p. [27], Plate XI, cat. no. 21; Mention: p. 31, cat. no. 21 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 207 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 82 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 82 archive.org
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    Judith Walker Mann, and Elizabeth Wyckoff. Learning to See: Renaissance and Baroque Masterworks from the Phoebe Dent Weil and Mark S. Weil Collection. St. Louis, MO : Saint Louis Art Museum, 2017. Mentioned: p. 12
    Chong, Alan and Lorenzo Principi, eds. The Sculpture of Giovan Angelo Montorsoli and His Circle: Myth and Faith in Renaissance Florence . Manchester, N.H.: Currier Museum of Art, 2018. Reproduced: p. 96, cat. #2; Mentioned: p. 97 -99.
  • Myth and Faith in Renaissance Florence: The sculpture of Giovan Angelo Montorsoli and his circle. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (organizer) (October 13, 2018-January 21, 2019).
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    Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
    July 13, 1971- September 19, 1971 "Florence and the Arts-Five Centuries of Patronage," Cleveland Museum of Art (cat no. 30)
    Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).
    Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).
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