Crucifixion, c. 1495−1500
Salome is one of the two leftmost women with a halo.
Oil on panel
197 cm × 700 cm (78 in × 280 in)
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Buhl, Haut-Rhin
Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world. Salome was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in apocryphal writings…
Zaidan Gallery 
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