# Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LUINI, Bernardino]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 62 x 51 cm ## Commentary Bernardino Luini was a close follower of Leonardo da Vinci. He repeated Leonardo's favourite themes and types, making virtuoso use of sfumato, the soft misty chiaroscuro which seems to surround objects. This painting, its contours blurred by delicate shadows, is one of his works most indebted to Leonardo. You can view <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&\#38;title=Salome+AND+Baptist&\#38;comment=&\#38;time=any&\#38;school=any&\#38;form=any&\#38;type=any&\#38;location=&\#38;header=0&\#38;other=0&\#38;showauthor=1&\#38;caption=Salome+with+the+Head+of+John+the+Baptist'\)" HREF="/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&\#38;title=Salome+AND+Baptist&\#38;comment=&\#38;time=any&\#38;school=any&\#38;form=any&\#38;type=any&\#38;location=&\#38;header=0&\#38;other=0&\#38;showauthor=1&\#38;caption=Salome+with+the+Head+of+John+the+Baptist">other depictions</A> of Salome with the Head of John the Baptist. ## Related artworks - [A Female Martyr]() - [Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Girls Bathing]() - [Holy Family with the Infant St John]() - [Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and the Lamb]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara \(detail\)]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara]() - [Madonna in the Rose Garden]() - [Madonna of the Carnation]() - [Madonna with Child and the Young St John]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()