Salome by artzfuct
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"Bring me the head of the one called John."
I got tired of modeling so i decided to build a little test scene. Eventually I'll fix all the little texture problems and bone out the eyes and mouths. Enjoy..
Comments (3)
Dragonspectrum
You are getting pretty good there artzfuct...keep it up.
Kebbelchen
Cool characters and a stunning design! But who`s John, lol??? I am curious about the final version... Excellent design and textures. ThanX! ~{o;)
artzfuct
St. John the Baptist...the one with the cigar. ;-) here is a link to one painting but not actually the very one that inspired the idea: http://www.vincent.nl/?/gallery/paintings/1900/a1974.htm many painters have dealt with this subject over the years. here is an encarta article: One Salome lived in the 1st century AD and was the daughter of Herodias and of Herod, a son of Herod the Great. Herodias herself was a granddaughter of Herod the Great and sister of Herod Agrippa I. Salome's dancing at the birthday banquet of her stepfather, Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, so pleased the tetrarch that it induced him to offer her whatever she wished, up to half his domain. At the behest of Herodias, who desired the death of John the Baptist because he had denounced her marriage to her first husband's half brother, Salome demanded John's head. It was brought to her. Salome was later married to her father's half-brother, Herod Philip the Tetrarch, ruler of areas in what is now Syria, and then to Aristobulus, ruler of Lesser Armenia. The story of Salome (whose name does not appear in the New Testament) and of the death of John the Baptist is related in both Matthew 14:6-11 and Mark 6:21-28. Salome is also mentioned in the Jewish Antiquities of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.