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
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

Head of St John the Baptist

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