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Description: | The story of Salome who, at the instigation of her mother, Herodias, demanded the head of St John the Baptist from her stepfather, King Herod, has always fascinated artists. The scene was often used to express criticism of luxury. Carlo Dolci, one of the leading Florentine artists of the seventeenth century, was deeply religious and inscribed many of his pictures with prayers, aiming to inspire piety in those who beheld them. Although he painted a number of large altarpieces, he turned more and more to pictures with a single figure which confronted the spectator with striking immediacy and meticulous detail. | Subjects: | figure; religion (Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dolci, Carlo (Italian painter, 1616-1687) Æ Attributed to Attributed to Dolci, Carlo (Italian painter, 1616-1687) and studio Previously attributed to Marinari, Onorio (Italian painter and printmaker, 1627-1715) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8776... | Go to resource |
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