The Dance at the Court of Herod
c. 1500
Israhel van Meckenem
Israhel van Meckenem (German, c. 1440–1503)
Prints
The Dance at the Court of Herod, c. 1500. Israhel van Meckenem (German, c. 1440–1503). Engraving; image: 21.5 x 31.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.); sheet: 21.5 x 31.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.79 In this imaginative composition, Meckenem combines John the Baptist’s beheading with a courtly promenade. The religious narrative’s gruesome episodes occur in the background, where Salome collects the saint’s severed head on a platter and then presents it at Herod’s banquet table. Salome appears a third time in the foreground, where she dances with a lusty suitor who grabs her waist instead of politely holding her hand.
- Maker/Artist
- Meckenem, Israhel van, the younger
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- engraving
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.5 x 31.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21.5 x 31.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1952.79
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Old Master Prints and Drawings, Sacred and Profane in Late Gothic Prints, Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints, Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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