Ubaldo Gandolfi, 1770 - The Execution of Saint John the Baptist - fine art print

Original artwork specifications as provided by the museum's website (© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This work, by one of the leading painters of eighteenth-century Bologna, is an oil sketch (modello) for a major altarpiece in the church of San Michele, Vercelli, midway between Milan and Turin. Ubaldo Gandolfi has endowed the scene with a visionary quality, as angels appear to the saint. Especially effective is the contrast between the executioner rolling up his sleeve and the prayerful attitude of the saint. In the left background is Salome, who as a reward for her dancing had requested King Herod that Saint John’s head be brought to her on a silver platter.

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The Execution of Saint John the Baptist was created by the neoclassicist Italian artist Ubaldo Gandolfi. The version of the masterpiece had the following size: 24 3/8 × 17 in (61,9 × 43,2 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. The artwork is part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The classic art masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of European Paintings Gifts, 2014. : Purchase, Friends of European Paintings Gifts, 2014. On top of that, alignment is portrait and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width. The painter Ubaldo Gandolfi was a European artist from Italy, whose style was mainly Neoclassicism. The Neoclassicist artist lived for a total of 53 years - born in the year 1728 and died in the year 1781 in Ravenna, Ravenna province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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