Nuda veritas
Unknown (Italian)
Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564) (after a work of)
Alberti, Cherubino (1553-1615) (after a work of)
Additional titles
St. John the Baptist
- Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University)
Kirk Edward Long Collection[Museum inv. no.: L.15.501.2007]Loaned by Kirk Edward Long.
Item location
Description
The heavily muscled nude figure of John the Baptist occupies the center oval of a print surrounded by an ornamented border. His bearded face is shown in right profile. His arms are held straight to his sides with his hands on each upper thigh. He is striding forward with his left leg in front of his right leg. A rope belt at his waist holds an animal skin draped behind his legs. Two cherubs flank his head to the right and left in the border, and the cherub on the right is playing a trumpet. The title, Nuda veritas" Roma 1591, is written inside a circle above his head, and the head of a lion is below his feet. "Mang B pixit in Vaticano" is written in all capital letters at the bottom of the border identifying the painter Michelangelo.People as subjects
St. John the Baptist (Non-musician/dancer)Iconclass
73(A)John the Baptist
Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
End-blown trumpet [6556]RIdIM images
Image URLs
image link 2Bibliographic references
Alberti, Alessia, Alessandro Rovetta, and Claudio Salsi, eds. D'apreĢs Michelangelo. 1st ed. (Venezia : Marsilio, 2015) 104, no. 203. ISBN: 9788831723398.Bury, Michael, and Antony Griffiths. The print in Italy, 1550-1620 (London: British Museum Press, 2001) 144-45, cat. 94. ISBN: 9780714126296.
Barnes, Bernadine Ann. Michelangelo in print: Reproductions as response in the sixteenth-century (Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2010) 23. ISBN: 9780754663782.