The head of St. John exhibits the calm head of a saint, to whom death was nought; and the feeling of the female is natural and expressive. As of one who fulfils, with reluctance and disgust the cruel ...

The oil painting Salome with the Head of John the Baptist portrays a gruesome scene, riddled with themes of revenge and jealousy. Though past collections records reflect an attribution of the painting ...

His “Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St. John the Baptist” dates from the early 1630s. This huge oil painting (9 feet by 30 feet) can be seen in Madrid’s Prado Museum.

Salome’s dancing so pleased her stepfather Herod that he offered her anything she wanted. Her mother advised Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head, which Salome presented to her family in an ...

The Exhibition of Paintings of the International Art Institution, 694 Broadway, corner of Fourth Street. New-York: G.B. Teubner, Printer, 10 Spruce Street. 1860. Artist address: Berlin. Date 1876 ...