salome description caption from the museum saint john the baptist was beheaded at the request of herodias the wife of herod and his head presented to her daughter salome on a charger salome then brought the head to her mother new testament matthew 141 12 there is another version of identical quality different only in small details vienna kunsthistorisches museum and other versions are recorded elsewhere there are four drawings related to the composition of this picture and that in vienna some drawings in pigment are also to be seen on the unprimed wood of the reverse of t mnx7rx.jpg from gia itzel salomé gil View Photo