Beheaded Classical Paintings Of Biblical Decapitation (Illuminated Masters Volume 1)

Author: Gianfranco Sodoma

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  • : $39.95 AUD
  • : 9781840686807
  • : Deicide Press
  • : Deicide Press
  • : January 2017
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  • : Gianfranco Sodoma
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Barcode 9781840686807
9781840686807

Description

Beheaded collects more than 80 Renaissance and early Baroque period paintings depicting three violent myths: Salome's demand for the severed head of John the Baptist, Judith's seduction and beheading of Holofernes, and David's felling and beheading of Goliath. The artists featured include Caravaggio, Mattia Preti, Andrea Solario, Orazio Borgianni, Carlo Dolci, Guido Reni, Sebastian de Llanos Valdes, Pieter Fransz de Grebber, Lucas Cranach, Massimo Stanzione, Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne and many others.