Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist information
Painting by Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger
The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist is a large painting by the Silesian artist Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger (1591 – about 1650) which is now displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In oil on canvas, it measures 2.80 by 9.52 metres (9 ft 2 in × 31 ft 3 in), and is variously dated between about 1630 and 1643.[1]
The painting shows two scenes from the biblical account of the death of John the Baptist. The main part of the painting, on the left, shows the banquet of Herod Antipas at which his daughter Salome produced the head of John the Baptist. The much smaller execution scene is shown on the right hand side, to the right of the column dividing the picture space.[2] The Beheading of John the Baptist had often been combined with the Feast of Herod in this way, with the execution relegated to a different space at the side of the image, a pattern Strobel takes to an extreme.
The figures include many portraits of leading figures of the Thirty Years' War, and probably other less well known court figures, not all so far identified, or with agreed identifications. It has been interpreted as an allegorical "appeal to the Christian world to save [Strobel's] doomed home country" of Silesia, which had suffered greatly from the wars.[3]
Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, Prado, almost 10 metres (33 ft) wide, this enormous work is Stobel's masterpiece.
^Prado Guide, 409; Harosimowicz; variant titles include: "The Beheading of St John the Baptist", "Herod's Feast" (see Fresco), "The Banquet of Herod and the Decapitation of John the Baptist" ([1] etc. The Prado's Spanish title is La Degollación de San Juan Bautista y el banquete de Herodes and their English one (in the Prado Guide) is The Beheading of St John the Baptist and the Banquet of Herod
^Ossowski, 13
^Harosimowicz
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