15 Facts About Salome

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Salome's appeared in film, for instance in a 1953 Salome film starring Rita Hayworth in the title role.

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Salome is commonly identified with the daughter of Herodias who, according to accounts in the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew, danced for Herod Antipas.

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Salome went and beheaded him in the prison and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

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Salome 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.

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5.

Salome is mentioned as a stepdaughter of Herod Antipas in Josephus's Jewish Antiquities :.

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6.

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 the Elder, Titian, Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Fabritius, Henri Regnault, Georges Rochegrosse, Gustave Moreau, Lovis Corinth and Federico Beltran-Masses.

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7.

In Moreau's version the figure of Salome is emblematic of the femme fatale, a fashionable trope of fin-de-siecle decadence.

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Salome appears as a character in Alessandro Stradella's oratorio S Giovanni Battista" class="extiw" title="scores:S.

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Salome herself is shown as a young girl who forgets the name of the man whose head she requests as she is asking for it.

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10.

Salome is shown in the mystery play as a personification of Carl Jung's pleasure in The Red Book.

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11.

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 Salome.

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In Wilde's play, Salome takes a perverse fancy for John the Baptist, and causes him to be executed when John spurns her affections.

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13.

The opera Salome, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, is famous for the Dance of the Seven Veils.

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14.

Poetry concerning Salome has been written by, among others, Ai, Nick Cave, and Carol Ann Duffy .

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Songs about Salome have been written by, among others, Archibald Joyce, Tommy Duncan, Karel Kryl, Drs.

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