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Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
Now showingPermanent collectionTicketed — see website
Caravaggio's dramatic Baroque painting of Salome receiving the Baptist's severed head, painted during his exile in Naples, c. 1607.
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- Salome with the Head of John the BaptistCourtesy of Galería de las Colecciones Reales
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- Galería de las Colecciones RealesJavier Pérez Montes (Nerve net), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo CerralboZarateman, CC0
- Espacio Fundación TelefónicaLev (Flickr: _lev_), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San FernandoStanislav Kozlovskiy (Ctac), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0