In the Bible who called for the head of John the Baptist?
Women in the Bible had called her second marriage unlawful, but her husband king Herod prevented this. On Herod's birthday, Herodias' daughter danced for him, and he was so pleased that he took an oath, in front of witnesses, that he would give her what she wanted. Her mother instructed her to ask for the head of John the Baptist on a plate, and Herod sadly agreed. The imprisoned John was beheaded, the head given to the daughter, and she gave it to her mother. Herodias daughter is unnamed in the gospels, but has outside the Bible been referred to as Salome. Ananias and
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