Young Saint John and the Lamb
Giuseppe Piamontini
1675–1705
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.2 x 33 x 25.4 cm (17 x 13 x 10 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Italy, Florence, 17th century
About
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.
