Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist
The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist is a large painting by the Silesian artist Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger which is now displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In oil on canvas, it measures 2.80 by 9.52 metres, and is variously dated between about 1630 and 1643.
Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, Prado, almost 10 metres (33 ft) wide, this enormous work is Stobel's masterpiece.
The military group at the left
Herod and the group of ladies
Detail of the left end of the table. The depiction of the standing figures at front varies, and the two boys wear Polish styles of costume.
Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger or Bartholomäus in German or Bartlomiej in Polish was a Baroque painter from Silesia, who worked in Prague, Silesia, and finally Poland, where he emigrated to escape the disruption of the Thirty Years War.
Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, c. 1630s, Prado; almost 10 metres wide, this enormous work is regarded as his masterpiece
Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel (1636–1637), oil on copper, 39.5 × 30 cm (15.6 × 11.8 in), National Museum, Warsaw.
Portrait of Władysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski (1635), Wilanów Palace.
