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The beheading of Saint John the Baptist is one of the staple subjects of Christian art. The story's folk version, however, in which a femme fatale has the saint killed because of her desire for him, had from the sixteenth century informed erotic pictures depicting Salome carrying the Baptist's severed head, often the artist's self portrait.
Beheading of John the Baptist (Damaskinos) The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Giovanni di Paolo) The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (Caravaggio) Bevilacqua-Lazise Altarpiece; Birth of John the Baptist (Signorelli) The Birth of Saint John the Baptist (Artemisia Gentileschi) Braque Triptych; Brera Madonna; The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Measuring 3.7 m by 5.2 m, it depicts the execution of John the Baptist. It is located in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. According to Andrea Pomella in Caravaggio: An Artist through Images (2005), the work is widely considered to be Caravaggio's masterpiece as well as "one of the most important works in Western painting."
The painting which had been lost or misattributed for over 200 years was rediscovered in 1987 and in 1998 sold for $5.5 million US. The work then became part of the Fisch-Davidson collection of Baroque paintings and in turn was sold in February 2023 during Sotheby's Old Masters sale for $26.9 million the third highest ever price for a work by ...
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Lieven van Lathem, 1469, The J. Paul Getty Museum; Herod's Feast, Heydon, Norfolk, c. 1470, wall painting in an English parish church; St. John Altarpiece, Hans Memling, 1474–79; Beheading of John the Baptist, Andrea del Verrocchio, 1477–80
Signed and dated at bottom right, the image depicts the severed head of John the Baptist on a charger plate in which is a reflection, probably of Solari himself. [1] The frame bears a seemingly original Latin inscription evoking John the Baptist. It is now in the Louvre in Paris, to which it was given by Eugène Lecomte in 1868.
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: Accession: 1933.1014: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is a 15th-century tempera painting by Giovanni di Paolo. [1]