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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The decapitated body of John the Baptist and the soldier sheathing his sword are in the foreground, while John's head is carried on a platter to the table where Herod the tetrarch and his consort Herodias are seated at table in the rear
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border from the workshop of Lucas Cranach, the Elder, depicting the story of John the Baptist's martyrdom on the order of Herod Antipas
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As a guard stands with a sword over the body of John the Baptist in the background, Herod and his wife Herodias sit at a banquet table with a court jester and are approached by Herodias' daughter with the head of John on a plate