File:Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Cécile - The Beheading of St John the Baptist - c. 1869.jpg

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes
Description	French painter, drawer and photographer
Date of birth/death	14 December 1824	24 October 1898
Location of birth/death	Lyon	Paris
Work location	Lyon, Italy (1846), Paris (1846-1848), Italy (1848), Paris (1848, Belgium, London, Netherlands
Authority file	: Q216873 VIAF: 51724541 ISNI: 0000000081299147 ULAN: 500008870 LCCN: n50049345 NLA: 36580577 WorldCat

Title

The Beheading of St John the Baptist

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Depicted people

John the Baptist

Date

circa 1869

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 240 cm (94.4 in); width: 316 cm (10.3 ft)

Collection

National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery
	Parent institution	Board of Trustees of the National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 32″ N, 0° 07′ 42″ W
	Established	1824
	Website	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority file	: Q180788 VIAF: 144868906 ISNI: 0000000123422001 ULAN: 500125190 LCCN: n80081622 NLA: 35311349 WorldCat

Accession number

3266 (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane)
NG3266 (National Gallery)

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- Κατάλογος εκθεμάτων της Εθνικής Πινακοθήκης του Λονδίνου
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- Johannes Kastaja
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- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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- Пюви де Шаванн, Пьер Сесиль
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PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, Pierre-Cécile

(b. 1824, Lyon, d. 1898, Paris)

The Beheading of St John the Baptist c. 1869 Oil on canvas, 240 x 316 cm National Gallery, London

The beheading of Saint John the Baptist is one of the staple subjects of Christian art. The story's folk version, however, in which a femme fatale has the saint killed because of her desire for him, had from the sixteenth century informed erotic pictures depicting Salome carrying the Baptist's severed head, often the artist's self portrait. This theme was revived in 1841 by Heinrich Heine in his exotic poem Atta Troll, and quickly became fashionable in all the arts.

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist exemplifies Puvis's ideals and methods. While the picture is almost certainly unfinished, its lean paint surface is characteristic of the artist. During his travels he had fallen in love with 'Italian Primitive' frescoes, and it was their flat, matt surfaces that he tried to imitate.

Puvis de Chavannes's composition is derived from church frescoes. Bodies - like the Moor's muscular back - are distorted to appear parallel to the picture surface, or at right angles to it in strict profile. Perspective is suppressed, and space behind the fig tree is patterned by its branches into two-dimensional shapes.

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Author: PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, Pierre-Cécile Title: The Beheading of St John the Baptist Time-line: 1851-1900 School: French Form: painting

Type: religious

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