The painting of Marco Palmezzano of the Head of St John the Baptist (c. 1490) depicts the severed head resting upon a ledge or narrow table top. A thin thread of blood trickles from the neck and over the edge (See below). Gian Francesco Maineri in a work dated 1520 is a bit more realistic as he depicts the spinal cord and other physical details of the severed neck. The head rests, not in a charger, but in a metal compote and upon a square of material. A pool of blood is also indicated (See below). St. John the Baptist is an important saint within the Orthodox Church. There are numerous icons of the severed head of the saint, but they lack the gore encountered in the western church’s representations. A XIX^th Century icon shows the Head of St. John the Baptist upon a shallow footed bowl in the abstracted manner of Orthodox icons (See below). Modern representations of the severed head of St. John the Baptist are far less depicted than in previous centuries. The Detroit artist, Mario Moore paints a self portrait for Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist (2010) (See below).