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The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
1461-1462 · tempera on poplar panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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A sword goes up in a doorway, and Saint John the Baptist kneels beneath it with his hands joined. A few steps off the feast goes on: a girl dances in blue, another kneels with the head in a dish, the table is laid with bread and glass. Benozzo Gozzoli painted this small scene, the National Gallery of Art records, for the predella of an altarpiece commissioned in October 1461 by the Company of the Purification of the Virgin in Florence, a confraternity of young men between thirteen and twenty-one who prayed, sang together and staged mystery plays. One wall stands between the prayer and the party.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist', accession 1952.2.3, Samuel H. Kress Collection; tombstone and provenance from the NGA's own open-data record, objectid 41582, read 2026-08-27. · Lionel Cust and Herbert P. Horne, 'Notes on Pictures in the Royal Collections: Article VIII — The Story of Simon Magus, part of a Predella Painting by Benozzo Gozzoli', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 7 (1905): 377-383.
But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish.
Mark 6:27 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
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The file this print is made from
| Artist | Benozzo Gozzoli (Italian, Florentine, c. 1421 - 1497) |
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| Date | 1461-1462 |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 1952.2.3 |
| Medium | tempera on poplar panel |
| Dimensions | overall: 23.8 x 34.5 cm (9 3/8 x 13 9/16 in.) |
| Sheet sizes | 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1952.2.3 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication |
| Master | 14,914 × 10,408 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) on 25 August 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 14,914 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.