{"id":20509,"date":"2021-04-16T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:40:44","slug":"raphael-kirchners-salomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/04\/16\/raphael-kirchners-salomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphael Kirchner&#8217;s Salom\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kirchner1.jpg\" alt=\"kirchner1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This drawing by Austrian artist Raphael Kirchner (1876\u20131917) caught my attention for its apparent combination of the Salom\u00e9 theme with an arrangement of stones and cypresses that bring to mind Arnold B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s <em>Isle of the Dead<\/em>. All supposition on my part since I can&#8217;t find any definite confirmation that the picture <em>is<\/em> meant to depict Salom\u00e9, while a stand of cypresses is often just a stand of cypresses. But the Salom\u00e9 theme and B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s island were popular enough <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> subjects to be gestured towards in this manner, even on a piece of postcard art. In one of Kirchner&#8217;s other alleged Salom\u00e9 cards he has a building that resembles the Temple of Cybele in Rome so the cypresses may simply be there to signify Ancient-World-plus-Mediterranean-setting (which in itself contradicts the Judean setting of the Salom\u00e9 story). Kirchner&#8217;s speciality as an artist was attractive young women, often in states of undress, so the Ancient World here and elsewhere is providing the same excuse for a straight audience as &#8220;Greek&#8221; themes provided for homoerotica in the 19th and 20th century. There&#8217;s a lot more of Kirchner&#8217;s tasteful cheesecake at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/raphael-kirchner\/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-alphabetically,resultType:masonry\" target=\"_blank\">Wikiart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kirchner2.jpg\" alt=\"kirchner2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kirchner3.jpg\" alt=\"kirchner3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kirchner4.jpg\" alt=\"kirchner4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kirchner5.jpg\" alt=\"kirchner5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-salome-archive\/\">The Salom\u00e9 archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This drawing by Austrian artist Raphael Kirchner (1876\u20131917) caught my attention for its apparent combination of the Salom\u00e9 theme with an arrangement of stones and cypresses that bring to mind Arnold B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s Isle of the Dead. All supposition on my part since I can&#8217;t find any definite confirmation that the picture is meant to depict &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/04\/16\/raphael-kirchners-salomes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raphael Kirchner&#8217;s Salom\u00e9s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Raphael Kirchner's Salom\u00e9s","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[267,11354,123],"class_list":["post-20509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","tag-arnold-bocklin","tag-raphael-kirchner","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}