Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, by Hans Fries 1465 – 1523 was a Swiss painter before the Reformation. Switzerland. ( Salome, dancing pleased, Herod, so much that in his, drunkenness, he promised to give her anything she desired, up to half of his kingdom. When Salome asked her mother what she should request, she was told to ask for the, head of John the Baptist on a platter. )

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