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Illustration for Salome, by Manuel Orazi. A biographer of Wilde, Owen Dudley Edwards, comments that the play "is apparently untranslatable into English", citing attempts made by Lord Alfred Douglas, Aubrey Beardsley, Wilde himself revising Douglas's botched effort, Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, Jon Pope, Steven Berkoff and others, and concluding "it demands reading and performance in French to ...
Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649) Salome (/ s ə ˈ l oʊ m i, ˈ s æ l ə m eɪ /; Hebrew: שְלוֹמִית, romanized: Shlomit, related to שָׁלוֹם, Shalom "peace"; Greek: Σαλώμη), [1] also known as Salome III, [2] [a] was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias.
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Guido Reni, 1639–40; The Beheading of John the Baptist, Rembrandt, 1640, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; The Beheading of John the Baptist, Rombout van Troyen, 1650s, State Hermitage Museum; St John Reproaching Herod, Mattia Preti, 1662–66; St John the Baptist Before Herod, Mattia Preti, 1665
The Dance of the Seven Veils is the dance performed by Salome before King Herod Antipas in modern stage, literature, and visual arts. [2] It is an elaboration on the New Testament story of the Feast of Herod and the execution of John the Baptist, which refers to Salome dancing before the king, but does not give the dance a name.
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī Yaḥyā ...
The music of Salome includes a system of leitmotifs, or short melodies with rich and symbolic meanings. Some are clearly associated with people such as Salome and Jochanaan (John the Baptist). Others are more abstract in meaning. [16] Strauss's use of leitmotifs is complex, with both symbolism and musical form subject to ambiguity and ...
A fresco in the cycle Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist by Filippo Lippi in Prato Cathedral; Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Strobel, early 17th century (Prado) The Feast of Herod, an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1635; Salome Dancing before Herod, Gustave Moreau, 1876
The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist is a large painting by the Silesian artist Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger (1591 – about 1650) which is now displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In oil on canvas, it measures 2.80 by 9.52 metres (9 ft 2 in × 31 ft 3 in), and is variously dated between about 1630 and 1643. [1]