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 ...

Reviled as a seductress, who, some 2,000 years ago danced in front of her stepfather, Herod, before requesting the head of John the Baptist on a platter, Salome has had a sizable imprint on ...

Salome seen with fresh eyes: Nadine Malouf, center is Salome in Yael Farber’s new adaptation. Elan Zafir, left, and Shahar Isaac, right, restrain her as a spectral Olwen Fouere watches.

Jennifer Lassley Knight, Herodias, Salomé, and John the Baptist’s Beheading, International Social Science Review, Vol. 93, No. 1 (September 2017), pp. 1-15 ...

She was a bad, bad girl. Even by biblical standards, Salome was a seductress of the first rank. After all, Delilah only gave Samson a haircut. Salome got the entire head of John the Baptist, served… ...

THE PLOT OF "SALOME."; ... give me here John the Baptist's head in a charger. 9. And the King was sorry. Nevertheless, ... And he sent and beheaded John in the prison. 11.

Both Salome’s dance, often referred to as the Dance of the Seven Veils, and the moment when she was presented with John the Baptist’s head on a platter have often been portrayed in paintings ...

Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In the Bible, Herod Antipas ordered the Christian preacher beheaded for ...