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34-457: Salome (c. early 1st century CE) was the daughter of Herodias, and nemesis of John the Baptist (Mark 6:17–29 and Matthew 14:3–11). Salome or Salomé may also refer to: Salome The gospel story of her dance at the birthday celebration of her stepfather, who had John the Baptist beheaded at her mother's request, inspired art, literature and music over an extended period of time. Among

68-572: A femme fatale . This parallel representation of the Christian iconography, made even more memorable by Richard Strauss' opera based on Wilde's work, is as consistent with Josephus' account as the traditional Christian depiction; however, according to the Romanized Jewish historian, Salome lived long enough to marry twice and raise several children. Few literary accounts elaborate the biographical data given by Josephus. Despite Josephus' account, she

102-562: A "Salome the temptress" as among the women who went to the empty tomb; perhaps reflecting an early tradition that Salome, the daughter of Herodias, was at the tomb. Salome is mentioned as a stepdaughter of Herod Antipas in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews (Book XVIII, Chapter 5, 4): Herodias [...] was married to Herod , the son of Herod the Great , who was born of Mariamne , the daughter of Simon

136-725: A modern retelling of the Salome story in Now She Dances! , first produced off-off-Broadway at the Caffe Cino in 1961. Salome's story was made the subject of a symbolist play by Oscar Wilde that was first banned in London in 1892 while rehearsals were underway and which subsequently premiered in Paris in 1896 under the French name Salomé . In Wilde's play, Salome takes a perverse fancy for Jokanaan (John

170-454: A platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. The parallel passage in the Gospel of Matthew reads: But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod, so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter." And the king

204-500: A text aiming to fill in the supernatural details of the Passion, and to emphasise the value and meaning of church liturgy. The text starts with a description of Jesus' own comprehension of his own fate, i.e. the crucifixion . It is followed by a tale in which someone attempts to stand in for Jesus (i.e. die in his place), but the priests are initially unable to kill him, even though they try stoning and putting him in an oven. Subsequently,

238-568: Is also considered to be Judith with the Head of Holofernes . Unlike Salome who goes nameless in the Christian bible, Judith is a Judeo-Christian mythical patriot whose story is perhaps less psychological and as she was a widow, may not be particularly girlish nor innocent in representations. In Moreau's version ( illustration ) the figure of Salome is emblematic of the femme fatale, a fashionable trope of fin-de-siecle decadence. In his 1884 novel À rebours , Frenchman Joris-Karl Huysmans describes

272-527: Is considered to have been written in the 8th or 9th century, although the exact date is uncertain. The text is known from three partial manuscripts, and additional fragments, all of which are in Coptic . The text contains visions by Bartholomew , and acts of Thomas , but is predominantly about The Passion , and the Eucharist . The text seems to have no semblance of gnostic interpretations, and instead appears to be

306-534: Is part of her series, Femmes de Légende . Archibald Joyce composed three 'valses orientales' throughout his career: Vision of Salome (1909), Passing of Salome (1912), and Phantom of Salome (1945). Wilde's Salome has often been made into a film, notably a 1923 silent film, Salome , starring Alla Nazimova in the title role and a 1988 Ken Russell play-within-a-film treatment, Salome's Last Dance , which also includes Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas as characters. Steven Berkoff filmed his stage version of

340-504: The Dance of the Seven Veils . Other elements of Christian tradition concentrate on her lighthearted and cold foolishness that, according to the gospels, led to John's death. David Flusser , a scholar of early Christianity, believes that her "biographical profile suggests a normal, moral personality". Nevertheless, a similar motif was struck by Oscar Wilde in his Salome , in which she plays

374-475: The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew , danced for Herod Antipas . In his Jewish Antiquities , Josephus mentions marriages and children of the daughter of Herodias named Salome. According to the Gospel of Mark, Herodias bore a grudge against John the Baptist for stating that Herod's marriage to her was unlawful. Herodias's daughter had danced before Herod at his birthday celebration, and in return she

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408-559: The Théâtre des Arts . Another Salome ballet was composed by the Japanese composer Akira Ifukube in 1948. Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt 's ballet Salome with music by Peter Maxwell Davies premiered in 1978. In "Salome" (1896) by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy , Salome instigates the death of John the Baptist as part of a futile effort to get the interest of "a young sophist who

442-505: The liturgy going on there to celebrate the resurrection. Bartholomew then has a flashback about a divine visitation at the Mount of Olives. Meanwhile, Thomas is busy resurrecting Siophanes (possibly a transcription error and meant to read Theophanes ), his son. On returning to life, Siophanes describes what the afterlife was like, while Thomas proceeds to baptise all of the amazed townsfolk, who number some 12,000. Finally, in order to witness

476-474: The Baptist), and causes him to be executed when he spurns her affections. In the finale, Salome takes up Jokanaan's severed head and kisses it. At the time, British law forbade the depiction of biblical figures on stage. Wilde wrote the play originally in French and then published an English translation by his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (titled Salome ). To this Granville Bantock composed incidental music, which

510-418: The Baptist." And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison and brought his head on

544-597: The Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, – a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning. Salome appears as a character in Alessandro Stradella 's oratorio S. Giovanni Battista  [ scores ] (St. John the Baptist), composed in 1676, which includes "Queste lagrime e sospiri", an aria sung by

578-456: The Elder , Titian , Caravaggio , Guido Reni , Fabritius , Henri Regnault , Georges Rochegrosse , Gustave Moreau , Lovis Corinth , Federico Beltran-Masses and Henry Ossawa Tanner . Titian's version ( illustration c.1515) emphasizes the contrast between the innocent girlish face and the brutally severed head. Because of the maid by her side, this Titian painting, like others of the subject,

612-625: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Bartholomew the Apostle The Book of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Bartholomew the Apostle is a pseudonymous work of the New Testament apocrypha . It is not to be confused with the book called Questions of Bartholomew and either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew (or neither may be), a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha . It

646-449: The Salome character. In 1877 Gustave Flaubert 's Three Tales were published, including "Herodias". In this story, responsibility for John's death is given to Herodias and the priests who fear his religious power. Salome is shown as a young girl who forgets the name of the man whose head she requests as she is asking for it. Jules Massenet 's 1881 opera Hérodiade is based on Flaubert's short story. Playwright Doric Wilson created

680-478: The depiction of Salome in Moreau's painting: No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria,

714-501: The head of John the Baptist on a platter led medieval Christian artists to depict her as the personification of the lascivious woman, a temptress who lures men away from salvation. Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, notably in regard to the dance mentioned in the New Testament, which is thought to have had an erotic element to it, and in some later transformations it has further been iconized as

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748-425: The high priest , who had a daughter, Salome; after whose birth Herodias took upon her to confound the laws of our country, and divorced herself from her husband while he was alive, and was married to Herod , her husband's brother by the father's side, he was tetrarch of Galilee ; but her daughter Salome was married to Philip , the son of Herod, and tetrarch of Trachonitis ; and as he died childless, Aristobulus ,

782-470: The king said to the girl, 'Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it ' ", with a footnote: "[a] Other ancient authorities read 'the daughter of Herodias herself ' ". Herodias's daughter is arguably not Salome the disciple , who is a witness to the crucifixion of Jesus in Mark 15:40. However, the apocryphal Book of the Resurrection of Christ , pseudonymically attributed to the apostle Bartholomew, names

816-400: The paintings are those by Titian and Gustave Moreau . Oscar Wilde 's 1891 eponymous play and its 1905 operatic setting by Richard Strauss are among the literary and musical realisations which portrayed her. She also appeared in film, for instance in the 1953 Salome starring Rita Hayworth . Salome is commonly identified with the daughter of Herodias who, according to accounts in

850-650: The play in 1992. In the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard , the principal character Norma Desmond is portrayed as writing a screenplay for a silent film treatment of the legend of Salome, attempting to get the screenplay produced, and performing one of the scenes from her screenplay after going mad. She was portrayed by Jayalalitha in the 1973 film Jesus . Among the numerous art references in Dario Argento 's 1977 film, Suspiria , we can see four of Aubrey Beardsley 's illustrations for Oscar Wilde 's 1891 tragedy, Salome . Other Salome films include: Book of

884-544: The play. Shortly after the success of Strauss' opera, Antoine Mariotte created another opera based on Wilde's original French script. It was premiered on 30 October 1908 at the Grand Théâtre at Lyon . This opera was revived only in 2005 at the Montpellier Festival. In 1907 Florent Schmitt received a commission from Jacques Rouché to compose a ballet, La tragédie de Salomé , for Loie Fuller to perform at

918-623: The same name. However, the Latin Vulgate Bible translates the passage as it is above, and western Church Fathers therefore tended to refer to Salome as "Herodias's daughter" or just "the girl". Because she is otherwise unnamed in the Bible, the idea that both mother and daughter were named Herodias gained some currency in early modern Europe. The New Revised Standard Version follows this, translating Mark 6:22 as "When his daughter Herodias[a] came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and

952-518: The son of Herod , the brother of Agrippa , married her; they had three sons, Herod, Agrippa, and Aristobulus; According to William Smith 's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities : A tradition based on Joseph situates her birth in the Spanish city of Italica and her death in Lleida . A few coins with portraits of Aristobulus and Salome have been found. The story of her dance before Herod with

986-439: The text describes Jesus descending into hell , finding Judas Iscariot there, and preaching to him. Jesus then rescues everyone from hell, except for Judas, Cain , and Herod the Great . This is followed by a flashback described by a gardener to the night when angels, fiery chariots, and God, descended to earth, and resurrected Jesus. Bartholomew is present at the scene, and is shown the highest level of heaven so that he can see

1020-524: Was indifferent to the charms of love". When Salome presents to him John's head, the sophist rejects it, remarking in jest "Dear Salome, I would have liked better to get your own head". Taking the jest seriously, the hopelessly infatuated Salome lets herself be beheaded, and her head is duly brought to the sophist, who however rejects it in disgust and turns back to studying the Dialogues of Plato . A descriptive piano piece by Mel Bonis entitled Salomé (1909)

1054-433: Was not consistently called Salome until the 19th century when Gustave Flaubert (following Josephus) referred to her as "Salome" in his short story " Herodias ". This biblical story has long been a favorite of painters. Painters who have done notable representations of Salome include Masolino da Panicale , Filippo Lippi , Benozzo Gozzoli , Leonardo da Vinci followers Andrea Solario and Bernardino Luini , Lucas Cranach

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1088-637: Was premiered at the Court Theatre , London , on 19 April 1918. The Wilde play (in a German translation by Hedwig Lachmann ) was edited down to a one-act opera by Richard Strauss . The opera, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, is famous for the Dance of the Seven Veils . As with the Wilde play, it turns the action to Salome, reducing her mother to a bit-player, though the opera is less centered on Herod's motivations than

1122-406: Was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given. He sent and had John beheaded in the prison, and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. Some ancient Greek versions of Mark read "Herod's daughter Herodias" (rather than "daughter of the said Herodias"). To scholars using these ancient texts, both mother and daughter had

1156-652: Was told she could ask for anything. After consulting with her mother, the girl asked for the head of John. The account in the Gospel of Mark reads: But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. For when Herodias's daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you." And he vowed to her, "Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom." And she went out and said to her mother, "For what should I ask?" And she said, "The head of John

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