Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Sebastiano del Piombo)

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist or The Daughter of Herodias is a circa 1510 oil on panel painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, now in the National Gallery, London, to which it was left by Salting in 1910.[1] The work could also show Judith with the head of Holofernes, though the presence of a vase is more likely to confirm it as Salome. The painting's model was also shown in the artist's St John Chrysostom Altarpiece as Mary Magdalene and in Woman as a Wise Virgin, both of a similar date.[2]

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (c. 1510) by Sebastiano del Piombo

References
  1. "Catalogue entry".
  2. Kia Vahland, Sebastiano del Piombo. A Venetian in Rome, Ostfildern, Hantje Cantz, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2145-5
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