Francesco Cairo, 1635 - Herodias - fine art print

What specifically does the curator team of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art state about the artwork created by Francesco Cairo? (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Herodias—the mother of Salome—swoons at the sight of the head of John the Baptist, which she had urged her daughter to demand on a platter as a reward for her dance. Unfortunately, the bottom of the canvas was cut to eliminate the grisly detail of John’s head. Cairo made something of a specialty of grisly subjects, combining acts of violence and a kind of morbid eroticism. The picture was painted in Turin, where the artist was court painter to Duke Vittorio Amedeo I of Savoy (1587–1637) between 1633 and 1637.

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Herodias was by the male painter Francesco Cairo. The version of the work of art has the following size: 29 5/8 x 24 5/8 in (75,2 x 62,5 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the technique for the painting. This artwork forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The classic art public domain piece of art is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Paul Ganz, in memory of Rudolf Wittkower, 1973. : Gift of Paul Ganz, in memory of Rudolf Wittkower, 1973. Further, the alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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