Head of Saint John the Baptist (one of a pair)

Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist French
 Circle of Arnold of Nijmegen

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 544

Cut from larger compositions, the heads of Christ and Saint John the Baptist have been inserted into surrounds of various pieces of contemporaneous glass, cut and arranged to suggest clothing, pillars, vegetation, and sky. Active as a glass painter in Rouen and elsewhere in Normandy, the master, Arnold of Nijmegen, often relied on designs from Parisian workshops that were circulated around 1500.

Head of Saint John the Baptist (one of a pair), Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist (French, active early 16th century), Colored, stained, and enemaled glass, French, possibly Rouen

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