Sur l’émergence de ce thème pictural de la décapitation (ou décollation), les peintures de Lucas Cranach l’Ancien (1472-1553) sont assez significatives

le XVI° siècle, un siècle « gore » ? voir les tableaux :

Cranach’s Obsession with Severed Heads (l’Obsession de Cranach pour les têtes tranchées)

Most disturbing to modern sentiments, Cranach loved to paint beheadings or, more commonly, pretty women carrying severed heads.

The Feast of Herod (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533. Oil on limewood)

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1515, oil on canvas)

Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Lucas Cranach the Elder, c.1530, Oil on wood)

Salome (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530, Oil on Wood)

Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist (Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca.1530s)

Judith with the Head of Holofernes and a Servant (Lucas Cranach the Elder)

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, (Lucas Cranach the Elder, c.1530)

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist (Lucas Cranach the Elder, oil on wood)

Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca.1520-1537, oil on wood)

Judith With The Head Of Holofernes (Lucas Cranach, 1530)

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