Bust of John the Baptist

This bust orginates from a full figure sculpture adorning the outside of the Opera Duomo in Florence, though another copy can be found at the Opera del Duomo Museum.
Originally considered to be a work by Nanni di Bartolo by Horst Waldemar Janson (Janson 1957 II, 228-31, Figs. 482a-84d), Donatello’s signature is featured on its base (of the full figure sculpture). The statue does not look like earlier adaptions of Donatello’s John the Baptist, who was most often rendered as a skinny, dry old man dressed in animal skins.
If you produce new work with the model and want to share it with us, drop us a line at web@smk.dk or stw@myminifactory.com. This scan was produced in collaboration between The Statens Museum for Kunst and Scan the World for the SMK-Open project. Every model produced from this initiative is available under an open source license.
Scanner – Artec Eva