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Description: | Franco Zuccarelli started his carrier as a figure painter, before he became one of the leading landscapes painters in the classical tradition. His Saint John the Baptist Preaching was engraved during his lifetime in Venice by Pietro Monaco and described as being in the collection of 'Sig. Carlo Orsolini', probably an art dealer rather than a collector. The preaching St John is attended by a small crowd in incongruously varied dress, including two Don Quixote-like knights in the foreground, where also a young man, dressed as a hermit like the saint, is sitting on the ground in a thinking pose. | Subjects: | religion (St John the Baptist) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Zuccarelli, Franco (Italian painter, 1702-1788) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8812... | Go to resource |
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