Memling, Hans (4) 한스 멤링
Hans Memling ca. 1433 – 1494
Salome with the Head of the Baptist
oil on panel (176 × 79 cm) — 1479
Memling Museum, St.John's Hospital, Bruges
This work is linked to Mark 6:28
Art and the Bible - Mark 6 - New Testament
Mark 6 1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. 2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these thing
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Salomé's wish comes true: she receives the head of John the Baptist. In the background to the left the preceding episode can be seen. At a banquet, Herod asks his stepdaughter to make a wish. She asks for the Baptist's head, out of revenge for him criticizing the marriage of Herod and Salomé's mother Herodias.
The panel is the left wing of a triptych that served as an altarpiece: the "altar of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist". It was made for St. John's Hospital in Bruges, where it remains.
The right wing shows St John on Pathmos.