Titian - Salome with the Head of John the Baptist 1510-1576
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Salome with the Head of John the Baptist 1510-1576
86x73cm oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Norton Simon Museum Pasadena:
This painting is first documented in the 1603 inventory of the prestigious Roman collection of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, alongside another painting of the same subject and by the same artist: Tiziano Vecellio. Both paintings passed by inheritance into the Doria Pamphilij Gallery, but whereas the better version remained in the collection (and still resides there today), the Simon painting was sold by the Doria family in the late eighteenth century. It has been called the best workshop replica of the Doria original. Why two paintings of the same style and subject came to be owned by the same family for almost two hundred years has never been established.