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The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Feast of Herod
c. 1430 · bois (peuplier) — surface peinte coupée sur la gauche (wood (poplar); the painted surface cut down on the left) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
For the Passion of Saint John the Baptist · 29 August
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A soldier carries a head on a gold platter, and at the long table the supper goes on. Behind him an arm is still raised over the body of Saint John the Baptist; ahead, the cloth is laid and the cups are out. Saint Mark tells it without ornament: "But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish." A girl in pink dances. Carved alone, head and platter became what Barbara Baert calls a "substitute liturgical object during the veneration of the Host." Fra Angelico sets one doorway between the cell and the feast. The dish crosses it.
Sources: Explains the 'continuous narrative' (istoria continua) device used to separate/unite successive moments of one story via architecture, as used in this composition type · Louvre catalogue record for RF 196 confirming medium (tempera on poplar), object type (predella element), and attribution to Fra Angelico · Barbara Baert (KU Leuven), 'Vox clamantis in deserto: The Johannesschüssel', Open Arts Journal 4 (2014). · Mark 6:22-26, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish.
Mark 6:27 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)