The Execution of Saint John the Baptist ca. 1770 Ubaldo Gandolfi Italian This work, by a leading painter of eighteenth-century Bologna, is an oil sketch for a large altarpiece in the church of San Michele, Vercelli, midway between Milan and Turin. Gandolfi has endowed the scene with a visionary quality. The contrast between the executioner rolling up his sleeve and the prayerful attitude of the saint, surrounded by swooning angels, is especially poignant. Salome, who set this story into motion by requesting John the Baptists head as her reward for dancing for King Herod, is sketched into the left background. She carries the silver platter on which she asked that his head be presented to her.. The Execution of Saint John the Baptist 659875

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The Execution of Saint John the Baptist ca. 1770 Ubaldo Gandolfi Italian This work, by a leading painter of eighteenth-century Bologna, is an oil sketch for a large altarpiece in the church of San Michele, Vercelli, midway between Milan and Turin. Gandolfi has endowed the scene with a visionary quality. The contrast between the executioner rolling up his sleeve and the prayerful attitude of the saint, surrounded by swooning angels, is especially poignant. Salome, who set this story into motion by requesting John the Baptists head as her reward for dancing for King Herod, is sketched into the left background. She carries the silver platter on which she asked that his head be presented to her.. The Execution of Saint John the Baptist 659875

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