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1857 Antique Engraving Print of Saint John the Baptist by Raphael Sanzio
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Antique John The Baptist Engraving by Raphael Pina Sanzio. Original frame including wavy glass.
(Chairish Admin: this item has been …
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Antique John The Baptist Engraving by Raphael Pina Sanzio. Original frame including wavy glass.
(Chairish Admin: this item has been submitted to Christie’s and price will be adjusted according to appraisal.)
Saint John the Baptist was the son of Saint Elizabeth, a relative (Greek "syngenis") of the Virgin. He was therefore a relative of Jesus Christ. His father was Zacharias. He is often depicted wearing camel's hair; with a lamb, referring to his description of Christ as the "Lamb of God"; with a cross of reeds held sometimes by him and sometimes by the lamb; and pointing with his index finger, to indicate his role as annunciator of Christ. His martyrdom by decapitation led to his being invoked especially against diseases associated with the head, such as migraine, epilepsy ("le mal Saint-Jean") and quinsy.
Raphael's St John the Baptist as a Boy follows an iconographical model generated by the medieval hagiographical sources and the Lives or Stories of St John the Baptist, which were commonplace in the 15th and 16th centuries. These writings allude to the young John's early hermit experiences and his habit of wandering deserted forests alone from the age of five, and he is shown having withdrawn to a cave wearing only a leopard skin. The scroll he is carrying in his right hand bears the word DEI, the final part of the ECCE AGNUS DEI formula with which the adult John the Baptist turned to Christ and recognised him as the Messiah, the saviour of men. His left hand is pointing to a radiant cross tied to the trunk of an oak tree, symbolising destiny and Jesus’s sacrifice. The spring of water spurting through on the left, on the other hand, is an allusion to Christ’s purity and the Baptism he received from John himself in the waters of the Jordan river. To the right the landscape slopes away gently to a lake rimmed by a forest, with mountain peaks in the background.
The painting's warm colours highlight the boy’s agile and muscular body, with his pale skin contrasting with the dark rock in a way which echoes an earlier work by Leonardo da Vinci. It is precisely the latter's John the Baptist (now in the Louvre in Paris), which he painted in Florence at the end of the last decade of the 16th century, which inspired Raphael and especially the emotional power of the gesture in the direction of the cross. The nude pose, with the slight juxtaposition of the left leg slightly forward and the foot resting on the stone, reflects Raphael's study of the great ancient world models from Laocoön and the Ciampolini Zeus.
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- Dimensions
- 16ʺW × 1ʺD × 18ʺH
- Styles
- Medieval
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Figure
- Artist
- Raphael
- Period
- Early 19th Century
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Engraving
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Great condition. Minor loss to frame not affecting overall condition. Great condition. Minor loss to frame not affecting overall condition. less
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