Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist

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Not on view
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Pedro García de Benabarre
Documented in Zaragoza, Benabarre, Barcelona, Lleida and Barbastro, 1445-1485
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Museum tags: 
Medieval Gothic Art
Pedro García de Benabarre
Tempera on wood with gold finishes
Religion
Painting
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Description:

In the centre of the composition, Salome is holding a tray with the head of Saint John the Baptist, who has just been beheaded by the executioner. With a crowd looking on, craning their necks through the windows of a noble building, she appears accompanied by a retinue of damsels and musicians, which makes the scene look shockingly joyful.Works of the set.Saint Michael Archangel, Pedro García de Benabarre, 1455-1480. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston).

Medieval Gothic Art

Painting

c. 1473-1482

196.7 x 121.7 x 6 cm

Purchase, 1907

Inventory number: 

015883-000

Century: 15th
Subject: Religion
Tempera on wood with gold finishes
Compartment of an altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist. The museum keeps five more panels from the same work. Another panel with Saint Michael is kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) and the whereabouts of other pieces is unknown. From the parish church of Sant Joan del Mercat de Lleida.
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Pere Garcia de Benavarri - Decapitació de sant Joan Baptista - Cap a 1473-1482
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