Dido, Queen of Carthage

The Birth of St. John the Baptist (and detail) by Jacopo Tintoretto

Italian, 1550s

oil on canvas

State Hermitage Museum

The Feast of Herod after Peter Paul Rubens. Oil on copper. Private collection via Sotheby’s. 

Herodias at the Feast of Herod (with detail of Herodias and head of John the Baptist) by an unknown artist after Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish, 17th century

brown ink with traces of chalk on paper

Rijksmuseum

The Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist by a follower of Peter Paul Rubens. Oil on oak panel. Private collection via Sotheby’s. 

Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist by Willem Panneels after Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish, 1631

etching

Rijksmuseum

Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist by Luca Giordano (called Fa Presto)

Italian, perhaps early 1680s

oil on paper

private collection

Salomé with the Head of St. John before Herod by Mattia Preti (called Il Calabrese) 

Italian, c. 1665

oil on canvas

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister