Salome Receiving John the Baptist’s Head on a Platter (folio 112 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
1602–4
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Herod, King of Judea, sits on a Mughal-style throne as his wife’s daughter Salome reaches for the freshly severed head of John the Baptist. John had offended Herod’s wife, so she took revenge by having her daughter seduce Herod into granting her this wish. Salome is depicted m...
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