Artist: John William Waterhouse
Style: Romanticism
Topic: Famous People
Date: 1887
Size: 183 x 267 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Mariamne leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod (1887) is an oil painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse. Mariamne (c. 57-29 BC), Jewish princess, a popular heroine in both Jewish and Christian traditions, whose marriage (37 BC) to the Judean king Herod the Great united his family with the deposed Hasmonean royal family (Maccabees) and helped legitimize his position. At the instigation of his sister Salome and Mariamne's mother, Alexandra, however, Herod had her put to death for adultery. Later, he also executed her two sons, Alexander and Aristobulus.
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