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The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Date:
1455/sixty
Artist:
Giovanni di Paolo Italian, 1398–1482
About this artwork
This is one of six paintings illustrating scenes from the life of Saint John the Baptist, a prophet considered a precursor of Jesus. They were originally part of a group of 12 that perchance formed the doors of a reliquary shrine to the saint. The outset painting depicts John twice, leaving civilization—marked by ornate buildings and manicured agronomical fields—and entering the wilderness to become a hermit. In the next scene, John wears a hair shirt, symbolizing his austere life in the wilderness, every bit he announces that Jesus, at his right, is the savior prophesied as the agnus dei, the Lamb of God.
The post-obit iii panels depict John the Baptist's imprisonment and execution at the hands of Herod, ruler of Galilee. Co-ordinate to ane version of the story, Herod—seen in blue at the caput of the tabular array in the 4th panel from the left—was so taken by his stepdaughter Salome'south dancing that he reluctantly obliged when she requested John's beheading (visualized gruesomely in the 5th panel). Giovanni di Paolo related the Baptist's complex biography with expressive figures represented multiple times to indicate their move through highly imaginative and stylized settings.
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Edourd Aynard, Lyons, by 1907 [meet Perkins 1907]; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 1–four, 1913 no. 51, to Kleinberger, Paris, every bit agent for Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1914 [an entry for June 18, 1914, in Ryerson's notebook reads: "Bot [sic] of Kleinberter, Paris, half-dozen panels past Giovanni di Paolo (purchased past him at Aynard sale for 160 000 fr + ten%);" Fine art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1914; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
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