Saint John the Baptist (c. 1500–1525): Art, History and Details

Saint John the Baptist (c. 1500–1525) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Master of the Saint John Statuettes (Italian).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Saint John the Baptist
• Date: c. 1500–1525
• Creator attribution: Master of the Saint John Statuettes (Italian)
• Culture: Italy, Florence
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: terracotta with traces of polychromy
• Dimensions: Overall: 72.1 x 33 x 24 cm (28 3/8 x 13 x 9 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1942.781

Collection credit

Bequest of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.