Young Saint John and the Lamb, c. 1680-1700. John the Baptist is often accompanied by a lamb as a sign of his intimacy with Christ, the Lamb of God. The depiction of children embracing animals is a motif from antiquity that Piamontini would have known.

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Keywords: 1664-1742, 17th, art, bronze, century, cleveland, florence, giuseppe, heritage, italian, italy, museum, piamontini, sculpture