Salome - references

Oscar Wilde's play
Salome premiered in Paris in 1896, under the French name Salomé. Because British law forbade the depiction of Biblical characters on stage, Wilde wrote the play originally in French, and then produced an English translation (titled Salome). Wilde's French was close to native but he showed it to at least two French writers. One refused any corrections: "to correct the idiom would be to destroy the unique harmonies of the Wildean French." In the English version Alfred Bruce Douglas (Bosie) is indicated as translator.

Painting
This Biblical story has been a favourite of painters: a chance to orientalize with greedy Western eyes semi-nude and evil women, to express exotic scenery good to be colonized under the moral auspices of depicting a Biblical subject.

In chronological order (to see each work, follow the link):

Herod's Feast, Daurade Monastery, c 1100, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
Death of John the Baptist, Gilabertus, Saint-Etienne Cathedral, 1120-1140, Musee des Augustins, Toulouse
Feast of Herod, Giotto di Bondone, 1320
Entombment of the Baptist, Andrea Pisano, 1330
St. John the Evangelist and Stories from His Life, Giovanni del Biondo, 1360-70


Feast of Herod, Aretino Spinello, 1385, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest


The Banquet of Herod, Lorenzo Monaco, c. 1400


The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Masaccio, 1426
Herod's Banquet, Donatello, 1427
Banquet of Herod, Masolino da Panicale, 1435


Herod's Banquet, Fra Filippo Lippi, 1452-65



The Head of John the Baptist Brought to Herod, Giovanni di Paolo, 1454, National Gallery, London



The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, Benozzo Gozzoli, 1461-62, National Gallery of Art


Head of the Baptist, Giovanni Bellini, 1464-68


The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Lieven van Lathem, 1469, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Herod's Feast, Heydon, Norfolk, c. 1470, wall painting in an English parish church
St. John Altarpiece, Hans Memling, 1474-79
Beheading of John the Baptist, Andrea del Verrocchio, 1477-80


Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, c. 1490, J. Paul Getty Museum

The Head of St. John the Baptist, with Mourning Angels and Putti, Jan Mostaert, early 16th century, National Gallery, London
St. John Altarpiece (left wing), Quentin Massys, 1507-08
The Beheading of St. John, Albrecht Dürer, 1510, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis
The Daughter of Herodias, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1510, National Gallery, London
Salome, Tilman Riemenschneider, 1500-1510
Salome, Casare da Sesta, 1510-20, National Gallery, London
Salome, Giampietrino, c. 1510-30, National Gallery, London
The Head of St. John the Baptist Brought to Herod, Albrecht Dürer, 1511
Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), c. 1530, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
Head of John the Baptist, Hans Baldung Grien, 1516, National Gallery of Art
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Herodias, Bernardino Luini, 1527-31


Salome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest


Beheading of John the Baptist, Vincenzo Danti, 1569-70

Salome with the Head of the Baptist, Caravaggio, 1605


The Beheading of the Baptist, Caravaggio, 1605


Salome, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, 1615-20

The Feast of Herod, Franz Francken II, c. 1620, State Hermitage Museum
Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist, Francesco del Cairo, c. 1625-30
The Beheading of John the Baptist, Matthaeus Merrian the Elder, 1625-30


Decapitation of St. John, Unknown British, 17th century, Tate Gallery


Salome Dancing before Herod, Jacob Hogers, c. 1630-55, Rijksmuseum


Salome Presented with the Head of St. John the Baptist, Leonaert Bramer, 1630s
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Massimo Stanzione, c. 1634


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


John the Baptist Beheaded, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1851-60, World Mission Collection


The Daughter of Herodias Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Gustave Doré, 1865


Head of St. John the Baptist, Jean-Baptiste Chatigny, 1869, The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Beheading of John the Baptist, Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1869 National Gallery, London
Salome, Henri Regnault, 1870, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Gustave Moreau:
Salome Dancing before Herod, 1874-76

The Apparition, 1874-76



Salome, 1876


James Tissot, 1886-96:
The Daughter of Herodias Dancing


The Head of John the Baptist on a Platter


Salome, Franz von Stuck, 1906