Head of St John the Baptist

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Sculpture. Head of St John the Baptist (?). The head is bent forward, the hair hanging in long ringlets. The face is drawn and grief stricken with the lips parted; the nose is thin and aquiline. Italian lime wood, with traces of original polychrome, height 12 in, width 10 in, depth 8 in, c. 1470-1500. Production Place: Italy.

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Accession Number: M.5-1949
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 576.13kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2010:07:29 13:52:19

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15th Century aquiline baptist carved eyes eyes closed Fitz_AA grief hair head heads Italian John the Baptist limewood long hair long haired male polychrome portraits religion religious Renaissance ringlets saints sculpture sorrow St John the Baptist wood wooden

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