Bust of the Infant St John Baptist
On display
Details
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Title
Bust of the Infant St John Baptist
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Artist/maker
workshop of Severo da Ravenna of Padua (active 1496 - before 1538) (caster) -
Associated place
Ravenna (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
c. 1505 - 1510 -
Material and technique
bronze
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.9 cm (height)
13 cm at base (width)
10.9 cm (depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by the Art Fund, to mark the Keepership of Sir Karl T. Parker, 1963.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 43 | Italian Renaissance
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Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1963.38
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Further reading
Warren, Jeremy, Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The Fortnum Collection (Daniel Katz Gallery, London/Oxford, 1999), 7
Hall, James, ‘The Renaissance bronze: Art at its most lovable’, (1999), illus. 53
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), illus. pp. 148 - 153 no. 41
