A woman with blond hair dances in the center of a room with a group of people clustered around a banqueting table to our right with a small, enclosed space occupied by a kneeling man and executioner to our left in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. The ceiling is made up of blue squares encased in a gold grid that recedes to the back, stone wall of the room. The woman’s dress is made of fabric that looks vivid royal blue or butter yellow, depending on how the light hits it. Facing our right in profile as she dances, she steps forward onto her left foot, raises her right…
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The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Benozzo Gozzoli (Florentine, c. 1421 - 1497)

1461-1462

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 23.8 x 34.5 cm (9 3/8 x 13 9/16 in.) ; framed: 40.3 x 50.6 x 4.4 cm (15 7/8 x 19 15/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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