RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco
(b. 1475, Firenze, d. 1554, Tours)

Preaching of St John the Baptist: John the Baptist

1506-11
Bronze
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

Rustici and Leonardo da Vinci were guests in the same house at the time, and must have collaborated closely, for the bronze statues of the group Preaching of St John the Baptist are composed, modelled and characterized with all the confidence and vigour of Leonardo.