Mariamne and courtiers, on the right St. John the Baptist tied to the ground, next to him a servant, in the foreground a boy in harem pants.
Mariamne (54 B.C. - 29 B.C.) - her name is also spelled Mariamme - was a princess from the Jewish royal family of the Hasmoneans and the wife of Herod I. The Jews of her day will undoubtedly have known her by her Hebrew name Miriam.
Herod I the Great (c. 73 B.C. - Jericho, 4 B.C.).
Frans Francken II (Antwerp, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium 1581 - May 6, 1642) was a Southern Dutch painter of the Baroque period.
                                
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