Head of St. John the Baptist on a Plate
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Head of St. John the Baptist on a Plate
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Published 2019-12-12T10:19:59+00:00
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This is the head of John the Baptist on a charger, as if it had just been cut off on Herod's orders. Unlike the Benin memorial head, which depicts a king's power derived through ancestors and existing across time, this sculpture shows the moment of death, going so far as to present death itself.
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| Date published | 12/12/2019 |
| Complexity | Easy |
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| Title | Head of St. John the Baptist on a Plate |
| Date | ca. 1430 |
| Dimension | Lifesize |
| Accession | 834 |
| Medium | Oak |
| Credit | Gift of the Kaiser Frederichs-Museum-Merein, 1974 |
| Record | http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/women/salome/1.html |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Bode Museum |
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