Focus on Salomé (Moretto) and discuss the Description and style.
The painting depicts Salome dressed in expensive clothes and a rich fur, laying a golden scepter in her left hand. Long hair is twisted together with a green veil and pearl strands. The figure of the woman seems to rest on a marble plaque placed in the foreground, over which, in black characters, there is the inscription "QVAE SACRV[M] IOANIS CAPVT SALTANDO OBTINVIT". The background depicts laurel trees.
In the 19th century, critics often identified the painting's subject as Herodias, but the youth of the figure and the inscription on the tombstone (which can be translated as "She who obtained the head of Saint John by dancing") indicate Herodias' daughter, Salome.In several sources, the subject is believed to be a portrait of Tullia d'Aragona. This belief does not have critical or historical foundation, and it comes from an 1886 essay by Guido Biagi. Biagi argued that this was a common identification, although he was mistaken.
Tullia d'Aragona Salome Herodias