Salome (disciple) Salome (disciple) Salome (, "Shelomit"), or Mary Salome, was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in more detail in apocryphal writings. She is named by Mark as present at the crucifixion and as one of the women who found Jesus's tomb empty. Interpretation has further identified her with other women who are mentioned but not named in the canonical gospels. In particular, she is often identified as the wife of Zebedee, the mother of James and John, two of the Apostles of Jesus. In Roman Catholic tradition Salome (as Mary Salome) is, or at
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London) a different painting of the same subject (see "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid)"). The handling and the raking light link this painting to works done in Naples during the artist's brief stay in the city during 1606–1607, an impression confirmed by the blances between Salome and the Virgin in the "Madonna of the Rosary", and between the executioner holding the head of the Baptist and one of the two torturers in "Christ at the Column" and "The Flagellation of Christ". From November to February 2012–2013 this painting was part of the exhibition "Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio