In the Bible, who demanded the head of 'John the Baptist'?
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, Madrid) Gash also notes that the executioner, looking down at the severed head, helps transform the painting "from a provocative spectacle into a profound meditation on death and human malevolence." Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, Madrid) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid), c. 1609, is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio in the Palacio Real, Madrid. The early Caravaggio biographer Giovanni Bellori, writing in 1672, records the artist sending a "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist" from Naples to the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Fra Alof de Wignacourt,
The Head of St John the Baptist (painting) to those of St. Vincent Ferrer Polyptych, the first mature work by Bellini, dated to after 1464. The Head of St John the Baptist (painting) The head of St. John the Baptist is a tondo painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini. It is now housed in the Civic Museum of Pesaro. The painting depicts the head of the St. John the Baptist just after his decapitation, with blood still dripping from the neck. The perspective from below show the influence of the treatises about perspective representation of the human figure which were being published at the time, such