Salome Receiving the Head of Saint John

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Salome Receiving the Head of Saint John

Hendrik Goudt; after Adam ElsheimerLinkedCulture matchlcp-ee8ad1002266

Date
c. 1607–09
Medium
Engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
66648

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Adam Elsheimer painted his famous nocturnal scenes during his 10 years in Rome. In this engraving by Hendrik Goudt, Elsheimer's torch-lit tableau became a tiny oval charged with solemnity. The only sign of Salome's guilt is the sword skimming her back. Elsheimer may have been inspired to undertake this subject in 1604, the year Pope Clement VIII settled a dispute between Amiens Cathedral in France and San Silvestro in Capite in Rome about which church had the definitive relic of John the Baptist's head-a dispute in which France came out ahead. Netherlands, Europe

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Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1927

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