Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger by Aelbert Bouts,1500 © Metropolitan Museum, New York. Source: Christiant Art.

On the advice of her mother, Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter, and the king, reluctant to break a public oath, ordered the prophet’s beheading.

It’s her mother, Herodias, who encourages her to ask for John’s head on a platter. The executioner comes for John, and the head is brought back into the party for all to see.

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 death of John is depicted by Silesian painter Bartholomeus Strobel (1591-c.1650). His “Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St. John the Baptist” dates from the early 1630s.

Object Details artist Dolci, Carlo Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 35 The companion of the Magdalen, and its equal in finish. Every part is treated with the greatest delicacy and the ...