Salome
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Salome, also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was granddaughter of Herod the Great and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from t
Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649)
Salomé with the head of John the Baptist, Lucas Cranach, the Elder, first half of the 16th century
Salome depicted as Queen of Armenia Minor, on the right. On the left, her husband Aristobulus.
Herod's Banquet (detail) by Fra Filippo Lippi (15th century)
Salome (play)
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Salome is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted se
Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for the first English edition of the play (1894)
Illustration for Salome, by Manuel Orazi
Lina Munte as Salome in the first production (1896)
Ida Rubinstein as Salome