Does anyone remember the painting of John the Baptist and Salome?….?
Didn’t see the series, but I have found the painting you want – I think! It is by [Italian Baroque Era Painter Guercino “St John the Baptist visited in prison by Salome (1624-26)”. His real name was Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; Guercino is Italian for squinter, a nickname given to him because he was cross-eyed I found a v. interesting commentary on Sister Wendy’s interpretation of this picture at http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin… The picture was in the news in July 1997, belonging to the Sir Denis Mahon, the art historian – then 86 – who wanted to gift it to the country but only to a Museum where public access remained free. (see para starting “Government hopes to scrap..” http://www.museum-security.org/97/artcri… Stop press info: according to a 2001 competition in the Independent the picture is n
