Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Giovanni Andrea Sirani (possibly after) depicts the dramatic climax of a moralizing biblical narrative through a Baroque-era lens. Salome with the Head of ...

Salome's salacious sexuality is famous in opera. But its potrayal of Jewishness is just as layered and opaque as its ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

But is there any evidence? Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In the Bible, Herod Antipas ordered the Christian ...

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Salome then consulted her mother, Herodias, about what to demand from Herod. Herodias instructed her to ask for John the Baptist's head. Herodias had already nursed a grudge against John the ...

Salome, consulting her mother, asked for the head of John the Baptist, who was already in Herod’s prison, on a platter. In the cycle of the life of Christ, there is no more important figure than ...

In "Salome," which the Houston Symphony (not Houston Grand Opera) is staging Friday and Sunday night at Jones Hall, John the Baptist is decapitated and his head served on a platter. For Doss ...

Titled “Salome presented with the severed head of St. John the Baptist,” it is the star lot in a rare collection of paintings that also includes works by French artists Valentin de Boulogne ...

Her mother advised Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head, which Salome presented to her family in an elaborate dish. Here, the head stands on its own, with a startlingly tangible presence. Despite ...