The most unusual treatment of Salome is by the Russian artist, Svetlana Kondakova’s Salome Beheading St. John Baptist (2000). This can only be viewed as a violent feminist painting in which Salome is beheading St. John the Baptist with a hand saw. Not only is the treatment unusual, Kondakova’s St. John the Baptist is a rough, tattooed man who is vainly trying to fend of the decapitation (See below). This painting is more the representation of the artist’s own psyche than the Biblical story.