Beheaded: Classical Paintings Of Biblical Decapitation

The two centuries from 1500 to 1700 saw a great rebirth of European art, including a massive body of works devoted to biblical subjects. Amongst these are three narratives which focus in particular on death and decapitation — 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.
BEHEADED collects more than 80 Renaissance and early Baroque period paintings depicting these three violent myths, a ...