Date : 1869
Material : Bronze
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European Painting
Sculpture (Head)
Area related
France
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Chatigny's work frequently emphasizes symbolic or mystical images that demonstrate his preoccupation with Symbolist themes of death, the struggle of the spirit, and the sublime. The bronze represents the severed head of Saint John the Baptist, who was executed at the request of Salome, King Herod's stepdaughter. Chatigny's loose modeling of the surfaces, such as in the hair, gives the bronze an animated expressiveness that evokes the quality of a clay sketch.
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