IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13818 accession number: MAR.M.201-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze with black patina; slightly polished. The figure stands with the weight of the body resting on the right leg and the left leg bent forwards. The bearded head looks down to the left, his right arm raised in front of his chest and pointing to the right. His left arm and shoulder are bare and his left hand holds a book. The mantle, worn over a coat of skins, swirls over his left leg above the knee, leaving bare the lower part of both legs, and falls to the ground at the back. It stands on a shallow square bronze base, mounted on a marble plinth. title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13818 PEOPLE ------------------- St John the Baptist TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast, patinated black and polished casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- polishing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 17th Century-18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Sansovino, Jacopo (Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti) maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.3 CITATIONS -------- Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_201_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 456 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_201_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 456 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_201_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 456 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_201_1912.jpg height: 417 pixels width: 250 pixels