Beheaded

Classical Paintings of Biblical Decapitation Illuminated Masters Volume 1. Beheaded collects more than 80 Renaissance and early Baroque period paintings depicting three violent myths Salomes demand for the severed head of John the Baptist, Judiths seduction and beheading of Holofernes, and Davids felling and beheading of Goliath. The artists featured include Caravaggio, Mattia Preti, Andrea Solario, Orazio Borgianni, Carlo Dolci, Guido Reni, Sebastian de Llanos Valdes, Pieter Fransz de Grebber, Lucas Cranach, Massimo Stanzione, Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne and many others.