Young Saint John and the Lamb (c. 1680–1700): Art, History and Details

Young Saint John and the Lamb (c. 1680–1700) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Giuseppe Piamontini (Italian, 1664–1742).

The work and its context

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

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.

Object facts

• Title: Young Saint John and the Lamb
• Date: c. 1680–1700
• Creator attribution: Giuseppe Piamontini (Italian, 1664–1742)
• Culture: Italy, Florence
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 43.2 x 33 x 25.4 cm (17 x 13 x 10 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1940.586

Collection credit

Bequest of James Parmelee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Seaway Nations. [Cleveland]: [East Ohio Gas Co.], 1959.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• Pillsbury, Edmund P., and Cleveland Museum of Art. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.

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.