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Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
Also titled Salome met het hoofd van Johannes de Doper
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (Oostzaan, ca. –ca.)
1524
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 83.8 cm x width 66.5 cm x thickness 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
Salome danced seductively for King Herod, and, as a reward, she was granted a wish. Urged on by her mother Herodias, Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist, who had criticized Herodias’ adultery with the king. Salome is showing us her prize, the saint’s head on a platter.
