Salome with the Baptist's Head (세례 요한의 죽음)

 

 

 

(마 14:9)

왕이 근심하나 자기가 맹세한 것과 그 함께 2)앉은 사람들 때문에 주라 명하고 헬, 기대어 누우려니와(유대인이 음식 먹을 때에 가지는 자세)

 

 

 

 

Caravaggio 1573 – 1610

Salome with the Baptist's Head

oil on canvas (91 × 167 cm) — ca. 1609/10

  National Gallery, London

Caravaggio biography

 

This work is linked to Matthew 14:9

 

Salomé holds the platter upon which the headsman is placing John the Baptist's head. A maid, or maybe Salomé's mother, looks on.

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob van Oostsanen 1470 – 1533

Salome with the Baptist's Head

oil on panel (72 × 54 cm) — 1524

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacob van Oostsanen biography

 

This work is linked to Matthew 14:9

 

Excited by her dancing at his banquet, king Herod lets Salome make a wish. Her mother suggests to ask for the head of John the Baptist. The prophet had denounced her mother's adultery with the king.

Jacob van Oostsanen opposes the cruelty of the Baptist's head to Salome's beauty and the tranquillity of the landscape in the background.

 

 

 

 

(마 14:11)

그 머리를 소반에 얹어서 그 소녀에게 주니 그가 자기 어머니에게로 가져가니라

 

 

 

 

 

Juan de Flandes ca. 1465 – 1519

Herodias' Revenge

oil on panel (75 × 50 cm) — 1496

  Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Juan de Flandes biography

 

This work is linked to Matthew 14:11

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At a party Herod promises the daughter of his new wife that she can have whatever she desires. Her mother Herodias tells her to demand the head of John the Baptist, the man who heavily criticized her marriage to Herod and who happened to be in the palace jail. Reluctantly Herod orders the beheading of John.

Here the daughter shows the head to Herod and Herodias. Herodias holds a knife, perhaps ready to cut John's tongue.

The tongue nor the name of the daughter are mentioned in the Bible. Other sources suggest the daughter's name was Salome.

This oak panel was part of an altarpiece devoted to the life of St. John. The remainders of the polyptych are scattered over several museums. Juan de Flandes painted it in commission for the Spanish queen Isabella. It was meant for the convent of Miraflores, near Burgos. In 1809 a French general in Napoleon's army took it to France. The Belgian collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh bought it in 1899. At the time it was attributed to Lucas van Leyden.