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Anna dei Lombardi at Naples (1475) and the statue of St. John the Baptist entering the wilderness by Antonio Rossellino in the Bargello at Florence (1477). It was probably carved by a member of the Rossellini workshop.","physicalDescription":"Relief in marble with rounded top recessed inside moulded border. The young St. John is shown advancing to the right in a rocky landscape, holding a  scroll in his hand and a staff in his right, his cloak blowing out behind him. In the foreground a re a number of plants, over one of which hovers a butterfly. 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Anna dei Lombardi at Naples (1475) and the statue of St. John the Baptist entering the wilderness by Antonio Rossellino in the Bargello at Florence (1477). It was probably carved by a member of the Rossellini workshop.","briefDescription":"Panel, marble, carved in relief, depicting St. John the Baptist, Florence, ca. 1475","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1854. <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 21."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, John. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Volume I: Text. Eighth to Fifteenth Century</u>. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, p. 199."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, Eric and Longhurst, Margaret H. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture. Text</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1932, p. 40."}],"production":"The relief is attributed by Robinson (p. 81) \" with great possibility...to some member of the Maiano family\", by Maclagan and Longhurst (p. 40) to the school of Antonio Rosselino, and by Middeldorf to a Rossellino imitator related to, but not identical with, Domenico Rosselli. 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