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"Salome" may be the Hellenized form of a Hebrew name derived from the root word שָׁלוֹם (shalom), meaning "peace". [4]The name was a common one; apart from the famous dancing "daughter of Herodias", both a sister and daughter of Herod the Great were called Salome, as well as Queen Salome Alexandra (d. 67 BC), the last independent ruler of Judea.
Salome (Henry Ossawa Tanner) Salomé (Moretto) Salome (Stuck) Salome Dancing before Herod; Salome Receives the Head of John the Baptist; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Luini) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Stom) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London) Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ...
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 Receives the Head of John the Baptist, Guercino, 1637, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, French Wikipedia page
In this work the eroticism is offset by the bloody head of John the Baptist. [4] Further, Salome is herself decapitated in this painting by shadow. [4] The work may have been influenced by the works of El Greco. [2] Tanner and his wife Jessie spent several months in Granada in the beginning of 1903, where he had time to study El Greco's ...
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] [note 1] was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias.
The Head of Saint John the Baptist presented to Salome is a circa 1609 oil on panel painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) executed shortly after his return to Antwerp after an eight year stay in Italy.
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (c. 1510) by Sebastiano del Piombo. Salome with the Head of John the Baptist or The Daughter of Herodias is a circa 1510 oil on panel painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, now in the National Gallery, London, to which it was left by Salting in 1910. [1]
Salome is depicted as a beautiful young woman, dressed in the finest clothing, while carrying the severed head of John the Baptist in a charger. She smiles, joyfully, and expresses no remorse with the macrabe trophy that she carries. Another woman, possibly a servant, looks from the left, while a young black page is seen at the bottom right.