Juan Martínez Montañés, Saint John the Baptist, c. 1620–30, polychromed and gilded wood, 154 x 75.2 x 70.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) A conversation between Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker

Additional resources

This sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jonathan Brown and Robert Enggass, Italian and Spanish Art, 1600–1750: Sources and Documents (Northwestern University Press, 1992)

Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos, Xavier Bray, Daphne Barbour, et al., The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700 (London: National Gallery, 2009)