Artemisia Gentileschi’s Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist (1610-15) omits Herodias, but shows the executioner placing John’s head on the platter held out by Salome. She looks at the head (this is possibly the first painting to show Salome looking at John’s face), but her expression gives little away, and although John’s face is pointed towards her, its eyes are firmly shut.