The feast of Herod and the beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Gozzoli, Benozzo (ca. 1421-1497)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1461-1462
Height:
23.8 cm  (9 3/8 in.)
Width:
34.5 cm  (13 9/16 in.)
Framed: 40.3 x 50.6 x 4.4
Technique / Medium:
tempera on panel
Place of creation:
Firenze (Italia)

Additional titles

The dance of Salome

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Samuel H. Kress Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1952.2.3]

Description

Salome dancing to entertain Herod and his guests who all wear fifty-century clothes. On the left side depicton of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist.

People as subjects

St. John the Baptist (Non-musician/dancer)
Salome (Biblical figure) (ca. 14-ca. 62) (Dancer)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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National Gallery of Art image

Bibliographic references

Boskovits, Miklós. Italian paintings of the fifteenth century: The systematic catalogue of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2003) 346-351. ISBN 0894683055.

Gregori, Mina, ed. In the light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece, 22 December 2003-31 March 2004 [exhibition catalogue] (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan: Silvana; Athens: Hellenic Culture Organization, 2003) 116, fig. 15. ISBN 8882157113.

Notes

Part of the predella of the altarpiece commissioned for the altar of the Confraternity of the Purification of the Virgin, Florence.

RIdIM record id

3251