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Saint John on Patmos, from Landscapes with Old and New Testament Scenes

Saint John on Patmos, from Landscapes with Old and New Testament Scenes and Hunting Scenes, 1584

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The Climax, 1893. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

The Climax, 1893. The floating figure of Salome holds the severed head of John the Baptist (Jokanaan). The head has writhing snake-like hair, and drips blood which forms a pool from which grows a white lily. A cluster of bubble-like objects perhaps reference the clusters of black grapes to which Salome compares John's hair. Illustration for "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, [John Lane, 1894]. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

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The Wedding of St George and the Princess Sabra, 1857. Creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Wedding of St George and the Princess Sabra, 1857. Sabra threads a lock of her hair through St George's helmet; in the corner is the severed head of the dragon he has just killed to rescue her. Jane Burden was the model for Sabra. Painting in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. From "Pre-Raphaelite Painters" by Robin Ironside, with a descriptive catalogue by John Gere. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1948]

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