Historias de San Juan Bautista

Serra, Jaime (active 1358-1395)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1356-1359

Height:

280.0 cm  (110 1/4 in.)

Width:

92.0 cm  (36 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera on panel

Place of creation:

Zaragoza (España)

Additional titles

Description

Left wing of an altar depicting scenes of the life of Saint John the Baptist. Upper part: Salome dancing at the banquet of Herod, male figure playing rebec. Middle part: the beheading of Saint John the Baptist. Lower part: burial of Saint John the Baptist by his disciples and the posthumous miracle. At the panel's lowest part three saints are presented: an unknown female saint, Saint Lawrence of Rome (with gridiron and palm leaf), and Paul the Apostle (with sword and book).

People as subjects

St. John the Baptist
Salome (Biblical figure) (ca. 14-ca. 62)
St. Laurence (died 258)
St. Paul

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Rebec [3202]

Image URLs

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Notes

Provenance: Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Tobed (Zaragoza, Spain); it is completed by the right altar wing, depicting the history of Mary Magdalene (also at the Prado Museum, inv. no: P03106), and the central panel with the Virgin and the Child with King Henry II of Castile (1333-1379) who donated the altar.

RIdIM record id

3322