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Title:Martyrdom and Death of John the Baptist
Notes:Painted choir-screen sculpture, northside, depicting the dance of Salome.

Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN.

Date:1508-1519
Building:Cathédrale d'Amiens
Object/Function:Relief sculpture
Material:Mixed
City/Town:Amiens
Country:France
Scripture:Mark 6:14-29
Person as Subject:Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, ca.20 BC-40 AD
Herodias, wife of Herod Antipas, died ca.39
Salome (Biblical figure)
Lectionary links:BProp10
General Subject:Death
Library of Congress Subject:Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
ICONCLASS Number:73C133
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Copyright Source:image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson
Copyright Permission:Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0
Attribution:Martyrdom and Death of John the Baptist, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29346 [retrieved April 23, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson.
Record Number:29346 Last Updated: 2022-06-20 16:03:22 Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00
Institution:Vanderbilt University Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition
Bibliographic Source:Chorschranke der Kathedrale von Amiens. Knipping, Detlef. Munchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2001.