# Herod's Banquet [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DONATELLO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Marble, 44 x 65 cm ## Commentary The meeting with Masaccio, who in 1429 was working in Pisa, undoubtedly influenced Donatello, leading him to explore more deeply the problem of perspective and space. Moreover, the same rules of two-point linear perspective, which Leon Battista Alberti codified in his De Pictura in 1435, also guided Donatello in this direction. This is attested to by the Herod's Banquet of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille \(once part of the collections belonging to Lorenzo the Magnificent\); Salomé, who in the act of dancing expresses her dramatic tension - within an imaginary architectural structure - is a demonstration of Alberti's instructions and causes the narrative content to blend into the architectural representation. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 15 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/20\_cent/strauss\_salome.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Richard Strauss: Salome, closing scene</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Altarpiece with St John the Baptist]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Ascension of Christ]() - [Ascension of St John]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()