Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Dance of Salome

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Dance of Salome
Image View: 
Left side, Salome relays her mother's wish to Herod Antipas (seated at right)
Creator: 
Andrea del Sarto (Italian painter, 1486-1530)
Location: 
repository: Chiostro dello Scalzo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Via Camillo Benso Cavour, 69
GPS: 
+43.779619+11.259464
Date: 
1522 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
fresco (painting)
Classification: 
painting
Material: 
pigment on plaster
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique); grisaille
Measurements: 
194 cm (height, approx., each panel) x 201 cm (width, approx., each panel)
Relation Work: 
partOf Cloister of the Scalzo Fresco Cycle
Description: 
After he returned from France, Del Sarto painted the Dance on the west wall. The scene depicts the moment when Herod Antipas gives the order to execute John to the soldier standing before him. Salome is not named in the Bible. This is the passage from the Gospel of Matthew: "But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them: and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him. But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given." (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier: 
6A1-SARTO-CS-S10-A06
Rights: 
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