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"Salome" may be the Hellenized form of a Hebrew name derived from the root word שָׁלוֹם (shalom), meaning "peace". [4]The name was a common one; apart from the famous dancing "daughter of Herodias", both a sister and daughter of Herod the Great were called Salome, as well as Queen Salome Alexandra (d. 67 BC), the last independent ruler of Judea.
The frescoes include Paul, Peter, John and Andrew, serving as a funerary devotional image, to protect the occupants of the tomb. [8] One of the other earliest depictions is in the house church of Dura-Europos, in the baptistery room, from the 3rd or 4th century. [9]
The Head of Saint John the Baptist presented to Salome is a circa 1609 oil on panel painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) executed shortly after his return to Antwerp after an eight year stay in Italy.
Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649). Salome (/ s ə ˈ l oʊ m i, ˈ s æ l ə m eɪ /; Hebrew: שְלוֹמִית, romanized: Shlomit, related to שָׁלוֹם, Shalom "peace"; Greek: Σαλώμη), [1] also known as Salome III, [2] [note 1] was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias.
Paintings of Christ washing the disciples ... (23 P) B. Paintings of Bartholomew the Apostle (11 P) J. Paintings of James the Great (18 P) Paintings of John the ...
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid), c. 1609, is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio in the Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid. [1]The early Caravaggio biographer Giovanni Bellori, writing in 1672, records the artist sending a Salome with the Head of John the Baptist from Naples to the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Fra Alof de Wignacourt, in the hope of regaining ...
In this work the eroticism is offset by the bloody head of John the Baptist. [4] Further, Salome is herself decapitated in this painting by shadow. [4] The work may have been influenced by the works of El Greco. [2] Tanner and his wife Jessie spent several months in Granada in the beginning of 1903, where he had time to study El Greco's ...
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (c. 1510) by 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]