Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, c. 1600, after P.P. Rubens.
Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, c. 1600, after P.P. Rubens.
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Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, c. 1600, after P.P. Rubens.

Peter Paul Rubens

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Filia Herodiadis dat caput Iohannis Baptistæ, iussu Herodis decollati, matri suæ in patina. Marci, 6, 27. P.P. Rubens pinx. N. Visscher excud ...

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