# The Death of Absalom \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SALVIATI, Cecchino del]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Absalom balances in a strangely hovering way on a root of the oak tree, while his locks blow behind him in the breeze. Salviati evokes with this figure the description in the Bible that characterizes Absalom as the handsomest man in all Israel. Salviati quotes here the classical model of male beauty, the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/a/antico/apollo.html'\)" href="/html/a/antico/apollo.html">Apollo Belvedere.</a> ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Peace Burning Arms]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Charity \(detail\)]() - [Charity]() - [Christ Carrying the Cross]() - [Coronation of the Virgin with Angels]() - [Design for a Ewer]() - [Design for the fresco cycle]() - [General view]() - [General view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()