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Saint John Altarpiece

Rogier van der Weyden
1455-1460
Oil on panel
Berlin, Staatliche Museen
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A motif of decapitated body is frequently used in Christian iconography of Salome and Saint John the Baptist, Samson and Delilah, David and Goliath, Judith and Holofernes, Saint Catherine …
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