Johannessaltar Johannes Altar 1455 Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400 - 1464 Brussels) Flemish Belgian Belgium ( John the Baptist )

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Johannesaltar painter around 1455 Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400 - 1464 Brussels) Rogier painted a smaller retable, probably intended for a side altar or a private chapel, the St John Altarpiece. It may be identical with an altarpiece by Rogier dedicated to John the Baptist and said to have been given to the church of St James, Bruges, by the merchant Battista Agnelli, a native of Pisa. The center of the retable shows John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan, with the naming of John to the left. In the scene of the beheading of John to the right, Salome is receiving the decapitated head after performing a seductive dance before her father - at her mother's instigation - to persuade him to order John's execution.

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Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
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