Florentine school, 17th century, San Giovanni Battista
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Florentine school, 17th century San Giovanni Battista Oil on canvas, diam. cm 20 - with frame diam. 30 In this small round-format canvas, St. John the Baptist is depicted half-length with his typical infant iconography, dressed in poor clothes made of caraway skin and a scarlet mantle. The Young Man looks at us pointing to the stick on which the scroll with the traditional inscription is tied: “Ecce Agnus Dei”, the sentence pronounced when he saw Jesus for the first time. The iconography of the Young John the Baptist in the desert, often accompanied by a Lamb, was born in the post-Tridentine era deriving from the invention of the Italian Renaissance artists of the