Salome Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist 1511

This 1511 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, entitled “Salome Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist”, depicts the moment Salome, daughter of Herodias, receives the severed head of John the Baptist. The scene is set in a domestic interior, and the figures are rendered with Dürer’s characteristic attention to detail and realism. This is typical of the Northern Renaissance style, a genre emphasizing the human figure in religious or secular settings, which favored intricate detail. The artwork is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in New York.