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Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Having danced before Herod, Salome requested the head of John the Baptist on a charger (Matthew 14: 6–11). Reni's painting, now in the Galleria Nazionale, Palazzo Corsini, Rome, was executed in 1638–1639 and acquired by Urban VIII Barberini in December 1639. This painting is similar in size and closely corresponds except that the copyist has slightly prettified Salome. Various copies are known although none are recorded in the Corsini inventories.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 140 x W 102 cm

Accession number

WA.OA904

Acquisition method

Presented by Mrs Jenkyns, before 1859

Work type

Painting

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