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 ...

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 ...

However the faithful in Amiens are not the only Christians to claim to possess John the Baptist's head. It is the one Christian relic that you might have thought is part of an April Fools joke.

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 ...

63 x 45 cm. (24.8 x 17.7 in.) This work is close to a composition by Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose prototype is probably the painting in the Szépmuvészeti Múzeum in Budapest (inv. no. 132), dated ...

Salome’s dancing so pleased her stepfather Herod that he offered her anything she wanted. Her mother advised Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head, which Salome presented to her family in an ...

and order his head delivered on a silver platter. "The Saints" follows the lives and legacies of saints like John the Baptist, who serve as examples of tenacity, courage and righteousness in the ...

There are several places, including Rome and Syria, that claim to have at least part of John the Baptist’s head. Parts of a hand and arm have been reported elsewhere. “There’s been a big ...