# The Baptist Scolding Herod and Herodias [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MASOLINO da Panicale]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary In the scene on the altar wall to the right of the window, John is chastising Herod and Herodias for living in an unlawful union. The setting is the interior of a loggia with a door at the end. The wings of the door, painted in perspective, are opened slightly toward the inside. The following scene to the right shows John in prison. The painter has used and angle in the wall to heighten the sense of the prisoner's isolation, for the actual prison cell appears in the embrasure of the south window. A painted balustrade extends across the top of this interior. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation to Zacharias \(detail\)]() - [Conversion and Beheading of Empress Faustina]() - [Crucifixion \(altar wall\)]() - [Crucifixion \(altar wall\)]() - [Feast of Herod \(detail\)]() - [Feast of Herod \(detail\)]() - [Founding of Santa Maria Maggiore]() - [Frescoes in the Cappella Brancacci \(right view\)]() - [God the Father Surrounded by Angels \(detail\)]() - [Healing of the Cripple and Raising of Tabatha \(left view\)]() - [Healing of the Cripple and Raising of Tabatha \(right view\)]() - [Healing of the Cripple \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()