page_title: Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist
hierarchical_section_title: Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist
context_page_description: The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist is an extremely large painting by the German-Silesian artist Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger which is now displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In oils on canvas, it measures 2.80 x 9.52 metres, and is variously dated between about 1630 and 1643.
  The painting shows two scenes from the biblical account of the death of John the Baptist. The main part of the painting, on the left, shows the banquet of Herod Antipas at which his daughter Salome produced the head of John the Baptist. The much smaller execution scene is shown on the right hand side, to the right of the column dividing the picture space. The Beheading of John the Baptist had often been combined with the Feast of Herod in this way, with the execution relegated to a different space at the side of the image, a pattern Strobel takes to an extreme.
  The figures include many portraits of leading figures of the Thirty Years' War, and probably other less well known court figures, not all so far identified, or with agreed identifications.
context_section_description: The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist is an extremely large painting by the  German-Silesian artist Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger (1591 – about 1650) which is now displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.  In oils on canvas, it measures 2.80 x 9.52 metres, and is variously dated between about 1630 and 1643.
  The painting shows two scenes from the biblical account of the death of John the Baptist.  The main part of the painting, on the left, shows the banquet of Herod Antipas at which his daughter Salome produced the head of John the Baptist.  The much smaller execution scene is shown on the right hand side, to the right of the column dividing the picture space.  The Beheading of John the Baptist had often been  combined with the Feast of Herod in this way, with the execution relegated to a different space at the side of the image, a pattern Strobel takes to an extreme.
  The figures include many portraits of leading figures of the Thirty Years' War, and probably other less well known court figures, not all so far identified, or with agreed identifications.  It has been interpreted as an allegorical "appeal to the Christian world to save [Strobel's] doomed home country" of Silesia, which had suffered greatly from the wars.
caption: Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, Prado, almost 10 metres wide, this enormous work is probably the masterpiece of Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger
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