Salome (Daughter Of Herodias)
In the Bible , Salome is the heroine of an episode from the Gospels of Matthew ( 14:1-12 ) and Mark ( 6:14-29 ) which has often inspired painters, writers and lyricists: daughter of Herodias , she danced before Herod Antipas , his stepfather. Charmed, it gives him what she wants. On the advice of her mother, she then claimed the head of John the Baptist , Herod Antipas brings on a platter.
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Salome's name comes from the word Hebrew , Shalom, which means "peace."
She is not named in the Gospels, where it is designated simply as "the daughter of Herodias" (or Herodias by translations).
It Flavius Josephus speaks of "Salome," daughter of Herodias and Herod Philip I The biblical The Gospel according to Matthew , 14:3-11 says: For Herod had arrested John, bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, wife of Philip his brother, because John told him: "It is not lawful to have him woman. "He wanted to kill him, but he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. However, when celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Herod, the daughter of Herodias danced among the guests, and pleased Herod, so he promised with an oath to give her what she would ask. At the instigation of her mother, she said: "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist. The king was grieved, but because of his oaths and the guests, he commanded it gives him, and he sent and beheaded John in prison. His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl who brought it to her mother. For Herod himself had arrested John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her, and that John told him: "It not allowed thee to have thy brother's wife. "Herodias was enraged against John and wanted to die. Legends According to a text apocryphal , the Letter of Pilate to Herod, Salome died by stepping on a frozen lake: the ice broke and she sank up to their necks in water. Ice re-formed around her neck, revealing her head as resting on a silver platter. It is usually the legend of the lake Barbazan ( Haute-Garonne ), near Saint-Bertrand de Comminges. According to Josephus, Herod would have been banished to Lugdunum near Spain , which corresponds to the ancient Lugdunum Convenarum. Herodias herself appears in various legends Pyrenees as a villain . Workshop Georg Schweigger , v. 1648 Gustave Moreau , 1876 Maurycy Gottlieb , 1879 Franz von Stuck , 1906 Claude Schenker , 1990 Caravaggio (London) Caravaggio (Madrid) Workshop Guercino In the fifteenth century , the character of Salome has inspired several teachers of German and Flemish schools, including Rogier van der Weyden , Memling and Cranach the Elder. The Italian school also takes up this theme, including Botticelli , Sebastiano del Piombo , the Titian , the Caravaggio , Battistello Caracciolo , Guido Reni , Guercino and Carlo Dolci. Some of these artists, especially Titian and Caravaggio, devoting several paintings to Salome. In the nineteenth century , Gustave Moreau also devotes several paintings and drawings to Salome, Salome dancing before including Herod, 1876, ( Los Angeles , The Armand Hammer Museum of Art & Collection), Salome in the Garden, 1878-1885, watercolor, ( Cairo , Mahmoud Khalil Museum), Salome and The Apparition in prison. Similarly, Aubrey Beardsley produced several illustrations in the publication of part of Oscar Wilde , Salome. Among the other artists inspired by this theme, we may mention Gustave Dor , Henri Regnault , James Tissot , Maurycy Gottlieb , Lovis Corinth , Franz von Stuck and Gustav-Adolf Mossa. If the character of Salome is a minor figure in the New Testament , his literary posterity is important. In Middle Age , is mainly for building the young girl appears in literary narratives. In The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragine , for example, Salome the sinner, who received the head of John the Baptist is severely punished for his shameful action: she dies, is swallowed by the earth is destroyed by the breath of the mouth the saint she was killed. But it is essentially the nineteenth century under the influence of German Heinrich Heine , Salome will become a true myth literary influences many authors. The most famous case is found in Flaubert , in the third of his tales, Herodias. But the biblical figure also fascinated Huysmans , evoking, in Chapter V of his novels A Rebours , the famous painting by Gustave Moreau , Emergence (1876). So instead of the end of the century, associated with the so-called decadent literature, the myth is gaining strength. Among the famous figures of Salome in literature, one must reckon with that of Mallarm in his unfinished poem The Marriage of Herodias, that of Theodore de Banville's poem in his Herodias, Princess from the collection (1874, one, parody of Jules Laforgue in his book Legendary Moralities. But perhaps the English Oscar Wilde who gives the most famous figure of myth in his play Salome. In the twentieth century, Apollinaris is in the evangelical character a major poetic theme, while that Michel Leiris , in his autobiography The Age of Man, brings the biblical figure of his aunt Lise, which played the role of Salome in the opera of Richard Strauss.
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