John the Apostle of John. For one, the author of Revelation identifies himself as “John” several times, but the author of the Gospel of John never identifies himself directly. Some Catholic scholars state that “vocabulary, grammar, and style make it doubtful that the book could have been put into its present form by the same person(s) responsible for the fourth gospel.” John the Apostle was the son of Zebedee and the younger brother of James, son of Zebedee (James the Greater). According to Church tradition, their mother was Salome. Zebedee and his sons fished in the Sea of Galilee. The brothers were firstly
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