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 Bible Art

The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Artist: Luca Giordano
 1660    Painting

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The Feast of Herod
Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
 1452-65    Painting

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The Feast of Herod was painted by Lippi as part of a life of John the Baptist. It is part of a fresco cycle accompanied by another, that of a life of St. Stephen.

The crowded composition is peopled by merrymakers at the birthday banquet of King Herod, Antipas, here standing authoritatively and tall in a crimson robe to the left. Herod looks out at us at moment between the festivity of his step-daughter Salome dancing to his right and the macabre realization that Salome's demand of the beheading of John the Baptist has been carried out.

This fresco is in the Prato Cathedral also knowsn as the Cathedral of Saint Stephen,  a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prato, Tuscany, Central Italy,