# Cleric with Book \(possibly St Lawrence\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Marble, height 56 cm ## Commentary Cleric with Book \(possibly St Lawrence\) c. 1480 Marble, height 56 cm Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota Two Clerics \(kneeling and standing, both beautifully carved\), were once joined to a Virgin and Child now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Distinctive is their angular, energized drapery, sometimes described as "cartaceous" for its resemblance to crumpled paper. They may have originally been carved for the Arc of the Persian Martyrs, a sculptural complex in the church of San Lorenzo in Cremona made to house relics \(parts of saint's bodies or objects with which they had contact\). ## Related artworks - [Creation of Eve]() - [Detail of the façade]() - [Detail of the façade]() - [Detail of the façade]() - [Detail of the façade]() - [Detail of the façade]() - [Doorway]() - [Exterior]() - [Exterior view]() - [Façade of the Cappella Colleoni \(detail\)]() - [Façade of the Cappella Colleoni \(detail\)]() - [Façade of the Cappella Colleoni \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()