Saint John the Baptist Preaching c. 1880, Musée Rodin cast in 1962 Bronze 19 ¾  x  11 x 9 1/8 in. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Partly to exonerate himself from the allegations surrounding The Age of Bronze, Rodin made his next figure larger than life-size. His Saint John the Baptist Preaching did not depend on Saint John's more common attributes— a hair shirt, leather belt, or a cross and scroll— but presented an unidealized, crudely modeled and awkwardly posed figure. Contemporaries found Rodin's nude saint improper, ugly, and shocking. Yet the image of physical and spiritual vigor is appropriate for Saint John, an ascetic who preached in the wilderness.