Salomé ou Salomés? Uma análise das representações da história bíblica a partir da arte lombarda do século XVI

Abstract

Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, we witness in Italian art, numerous pictorial representations about the biblical story of Salomé. And the reverberation of the biblical scene that marks the beheading of John the Baptist, called the attention of European art as a whole, from the end of the 16th century onwards. In the midst of thousands of paintings made based on this same story, what calls our attention in this research is the way in which this scene of the beheading was understood, understood and reproduced, within the small circle of Lombard Italian art, especially by some artists Milanese, such as: Andrea de Solario; Giampetrino; Bernardino Luini and Cesare da Sesto. Understanding how these artists absorbed and reproduced, each in their own way, the scene of John the Baptist's beheading, is of paramount importance, so that we can analyze not only the Lombard Italian Renaissance art of the 16th century, as a relevant artistic landmark of painting European. But also, so that we can glimpse the imagery impact that resulted from productions made after that period, which were most likely impacted as a result of the work of these Lombard artists. Therefore, understanding Lombard artistic practice is of paramount importance, so that we do not perpetuate a homogeneous discourse to which the Florentine experience; Roman and Venetian, are the only possibilities of relevant art in this period.