About the Artwork
Saint John the Baptist
between 1490 and 1500
Agnolo di Polo
ca. 1470 - 1528
Italian
Unknown
Terracotta with polychromy
Overall: 16 5/8 × 17 1/8 × 11 1/8 inches, 30.4 pounds (42.2 × 43.5 × 28.3 cm, 13.8 kg)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
26.121
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Gustave Volterra, Florence, Italy)
1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 2 (1926): p. 23 (ill.).
Jolly, Anna. "A Terracotta Bust of Saint John the Baptist Attributed to Agnolo di Polo," Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1-2 (1999): pp. 72-80.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 62.
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Agnolo di Polo, Saint John the Baptist, between 1490 and 1500, terracotta with polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.121.
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