Fresco depicting a particular scene from a Gospel story: Herodias, Salome's mother, abandoned her husband Herod Philip I and went to live with her brother-in-law, King Herod Antipas. John the Baptist publicly condemned the conduct of Salome's uncle; the latter then had him first imprisoned and then, to please Herodias' beautiful daughter, who had danced at a banquet, had him beheaded.