The painting is oil on panel and measures height: 54.6 cm (21.4 in); width: 83.8 cm (32.9 in). It can be seen at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The Eve of St Agnes window is based on a romantic narrative poem set in the Middle Ages. The poem was written by John Keats in 1819. Keats based his poem on the folk belief that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain rites on the eve of St.…
Eve takes the apple from the snake, who has told her that after eating the fruit she will be as God, knowing good and evil, The moment is known as The Fall. This fresco, measuring 280 X 570 cm, is part of Michelangelo's decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the…
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…
Many of Donatello’s most famous sculptures were done ‘in the round,’ but there are a few masterful works that were done in relief. One such sculpture is known as The Feast of Herod and is a depiction of the well-known Biblical story of the feast that was organized by the…
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