Saint John the Baptist

1470

Giovanni de Fondulis da Crema Italian, between 1420 and 1430 - before 1497

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Title Saint John the Baptist

Artwork Date 1470

Artist Giovanni de Fondulis da Crema

Life Dates between 1420 and 1430 - before 1497

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Polychromed terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 55 1/2 × 13 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (141 × 33.7 × 28.3 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Funds

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 22.2

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on base: VELLANO PATAVINUS OPUS A. 1470.

Provenance

Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)

1921, (Julius Böhler, Munich, Germany) and (A.S. Drey and Co., The Hague, Netherlands)

1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Planiscig, Leo. Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance. Vienna, 1921, p. 168–170 (ill.). [As by Giovanni Minelli]

Valentiner, W.R. "Recent Accessions." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 3, no. 3 (December 1921): pp. 22-30, p. 25 (ill.), 27.

Plainscig, Leo. Andrea Riccio. Vienna, 1927, p. 119 (ill.).

Ternbach, Joseph. "A Sixteenth Century Terra Cotta Statue: Problem of Restoration and Preservation." Curator 2, no. 3 (1959): pp. 219–232 (ill.).

Darr, Alan Phipps. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture." Apollo 124, no. 298 (December 1986) pp. 476–485, pp. 479–480, 482 (ill.).

Gentilini, Giancarlo. "Giovanni Minello de’ Bardi: San Giovanni Battista." In Dal Trecento al Seicento, Le Arti a Paragone, ed., Giovanni Romano. Turin, 1991, pp. 60–77 (ill.).

Gentilini, Giancarlo. "Il Beato Sorore di Santa Maria della Scala." Antologia di Belle Arti 52–55 (1996): p. 30, no. 10 (ill.).

Darr, Alan P. Peter Barnet and Antonia Boström. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 1. London, 2002, pp. 175–177, no. 87 (ill.). [As by attributed to Giovanni Minelli dei Bardi (ca. 1440–1529)]

Ericani, Giuliana. "Giovanni de Fondulis." In La Scultura al Tempo di Andrea Mantegna: tra Classicismo e Naturalismo, ed., Vittorio Sgarbi. Milan, 2006, pp. 92–99, p. 98.

Old Master Paintings and Sculpture. Sales cat., Sotheby's, New York, January 29 & 30, 2009, pp. 215–216 (ill.).

Ericani, Giuliana. "Giovanni de Fondulis. Un importante capitolo della scultura rinascimentale padana." In Rinascimento Cremasco: arti, maestri e botteghe tra XV e XVI secolo, ed. Paola Venturelli. Milan, 2015, p. 75.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Giovanni de Fondulis da Crema, Saint John the Baptist, 1470, polychromed terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Funds, 22.2.