About This Artwork

Giovanni di Paolo
Italian, c. 1399–1482

Salome Asking Herod for the Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1455/60

Tempera on panel
69.1 x 36 cm; (27 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Painted surface: 66.7 x 33.7 cm (26 5/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1013