Originally commissioned from Jacopo della Quercia, its artist used tiles, projecting beams, and the knives on the table to help create its necessary perspective.
Originally commissioned from Jacopo della Quercia, its artist used tiles, projecting beams, and the knives on the table to help create its necessary perspective. The architecture divides the scene into three parts and invites us to gaze back through the trio of arched windows to the very back panel which begins the work's narrative, that was requested by the Siennese laity for its Cathedral Baptistry, [*] with the carrying of a platter. Two young children can be seen grimacing on the bottom left, while the middle sequence features a musician whose playing accompanies a maniacal dance that shocks the title figure and his guests in the front panel. FTP identify this bronze relief that depicts Salome kicking up her heels after the death of John the Baptist at the title event, a work by Donatello.
Originally commissioned from Jacopo della Quercia, its artist used tiles, projecting beams, and the knives on the table to help create its necessary perspective.
{Banquet of Herod} or {Feast of Herod}