Who created "Saint John the Baptist"?

Saint John the Baptist was created by Giulio Campagnola in c. 1505.

When was "Saint John the Baptist" created?

This artwork was created c. 1505.

What medium is "Saint John the Baptist"?

Saint John the Baptist is Engraving in black on ivory laid paper.

Saint John the Baptist

Giulio Campagnola

c. 1505

Medium

Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 34.2 × 23.8 cm (13 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 35.6 × 24.7 cm (14 1/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Classification

engraving

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

18602

About the Artist

Giulio Campagnola · 1482–1515

Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...

Saint John the Baptist

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