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Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Bernardino LuiniLinkedCulture matchlcp-794ba54b304e

Date: 1500s or later
Medium: oil on canvas
Culture: Italy, Milan
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 97190

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Salome’s dancing so pleased her stepfather Herod that he offered her anything she wanted. Her mother advised Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head, which Salome presented to her family on an elaborate dish. Despite its biblical source, this work was meant for a domestic setting, whose owner would have admired the elegant presentation of a shocking story.

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Credit line: Holden Collection
Provenance: [Baron Persi, Paris, 1810]; | Count Eric Bentzel-Sternau, Mariahalden Gallery, Erlenbach, Switzerland, until after 1847; | Miner K. Kellogg, Paris, by 1855; | Mr. and Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, 1889, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.