Axial Commons Image Treasury
Medieval painting of a feast with guests at a long table, and on the left an executioner with a sword beside a kneeling figure.

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

A tempera panel with gold ground shows a banquet hall where richly dressed guests sit behind a long table laden with dishes. At left, a robed executioner in pink stands over a kneeling figure, while a servant carries a platter toward the table.

Artist
Giovanni Baronzio
Date
ca. 1330–35
Medium
Tempera on wood, gold ground, and silver
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
4000 × 3659 px
Download full size
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1340).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Español: El banquete de Herodes y la decapitación del Bautista

Un panel de témpera con fondo dorado muestra un salón de banquete donde huéspedes ricamente vestidos se sientan tras una larga mesa cargada de platos. A la izquierda, un verdugo con túnica rosada se inclina sobre una figura arrodillada, mientras un sirviente lleva una bandeja hacia la mesa.

Português: O banquete de Herodes e a decapitação de João Batista

Um painel em têmpera com fundo dourado mostra um salão de banquete onde convidados vestidos com requinte se sentam atrás de uma longa mesa coberta de pratos. À esquerda, um carrasco de manto rosado se debruça sobre uma figura ajoelhada, enquanto um servo leva uma bandeja até a mesa.

Saints and Martyrsfeast of herodbeheading of john the baptistmedieval paintingtempera on woodgold groundgiovanni baronziobanquettrecentoreligious artexecutioneritalian paintingbiblical scene

More from Saints and Martyrs

Engraving of St. Jerome writing in a sunlit study with a lion and dog in the foreground, a skull on the bench and a hat on the wall.De Heilige Hiëronymus in zijn studeervertrekBlack and white woodcut of an old bearded man at a desk in a small room, with a sleeping lion at lower left and a skull on a shelf.Saint Jerome in his CellTriptych altarpiece: winged angel greets a woman in red reading in a room; a man at a bench on the right; a couple at a door on the left.Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)Oil painting of an elderly man with lined face resting his hand on his chin, holding a knife, in a dark brown setting.St. BartholomewPainted panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned under a green canopy, with three male saints and a kneeling white-robed monk before a Gothic window.Tronende madonna met de heiligen Hieronymus en Johannes de Doper en een knielende kartuizeGilded gothic triptych: enthroned Virgin and Child with angels at center, a red-robed woman with scroll at left, and a spear-bearing saint at right.Triptych with the Virgin and Child, and Saints Mary Magdalene and Ansanus