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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 332655, member: 2844&quot;]You&#039;re right, not John the Baptist, the man with the hat is too old, and &#039;overdressed&#039;.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> This is what it would have looked like with John, Salome, Herodias, and Herod:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcStbU8o9bKVL-CkX7nMm_XctROfebPdROgfN3mCMRY9UYKz3YDbxA&amp;sp=c978e39bd131b08489e34ccab4d68afc&amp;anticache=530568" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It could be a depiction of a Northern European scene, Celtic or Germanic historical or allegorical. The king is wearing Roman style dress with bare legs, but he has a beard. That is the way Batavian Celtic leaders are often depicted here in the Netherlands. Sons of prominent families were often raised by Romans, as a way of Romanizing the conquered nations and holding kings to ransom. Of course that backfired, those Romanized sons often became the leaders of revolts against the Romans.</p><p>The women on the left look like priestesses to me.</p><p>If it is made by Hutschenreuther, it could be a Germanic scene, with a Romanized king.</p><p><br /></p><p>She does, maybe stretching exercises before her performance?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>She seems to be pushing the old man away. Allegorical?</p><p>The four roses on the carpet must mean something too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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