A. Delpriori – Abstract

This paper presents a sculpture by Lucantonio di Giovanni Barberetti in the Museée du Moyen Age de Cluny, in Paris. A Saint John the Baptist, carved in natural size. It was published by Enzo Carli like an sienese sculpture of the end of the therteenth century and so in all the little bibliography about it, until 1990.

It cames from Marche, maybe Fano, where was bought by an art merchant at the end of XIXth century and came in the collection of the Musée de Cluny in 1905.

The attribuition to Lucantonio di Giovanni (the possible Maestro della Madonna di Macereto), is giustified by several common stylistic characters between this saint John the Baptist and a saint Roch now in the museum of the Basilica di San Venanzio in Camerino, and with a Virgin and Child, from Corinaldo, but now in the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino. 
Lucantonio is known for many documents from 1485 and 1528, but his production could start even before the nineth decade of the century. The Saint Jonh in Paris could be carved at the beginning of eighties of the XVth century.