Monday, March 18, 2024

Salome with the Baptist's Head

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
16th century
woodcut
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Albrecht Altdorfer
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1517
drawing
Cleveland Museum of Art

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
1524
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Anonymous Italian Artist
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1580
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Matthias van Somer
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
1610
engraving
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

workshop of Rembrandt
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1640-45
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Nikolaus Knüpfer
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1650
drawing
Cleveland Museum of Art

Jacob Dyck
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1650
oil on panel
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lucas Franchoys the Younger
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1660
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Jan Thomas after Bernardino Luini
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1660
mezzotint
Yale University Art Gallery

Onorio Marinari
Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1670-80
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giovanni Vitalba after Lorenzo Pasinelli
Head of John the Baptist brought to Salome and Herodias
1767
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

James Barry
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
(The Feast of Herod)
ca. 1777-83
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Conrad Martin Metz after Giulio Romano
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1789
etching and aquatint
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1825-35
drawing, with watercolor
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan Adam Kruseman
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1861
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Odilon Redon
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1880-85
drawing
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Marianne Fürst
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1910
linocut
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
 
"But into Hell would I fain go; for into Hell fare the goodly clerks, and goodly knights that fall in tourneys and great wars, and stout men at arms, and all men noble. With these would I liefly go. And thither pass the sweet ladies and courteous that have two lovers, or three, and their lords also thereto. Thither goes the gold, and the silver, and cloth of vair, and cloth of gris, and harpers, and makers, and the prince of this world. With these I would gladly go . . ."

 – Aucassin et Nicolette (13th century), translated by Andrew Lang (1887)