{"id":8706,"date":"2011-01-24T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T02:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:25:45","slug":"mossas-salomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/24\/mossas-salomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossa&#8217;s Salom\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mossa5.jpg\" alt=\"mossa5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Salom\u00e9 (1901).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monsieur Wiley prompted this post by drawing my attention to the picture above. I&#8217;d already seen another Salom\u00e9 by Gustav Adolf Mossa on <a href=\"http:\/\/servat.rene.free.fr\/mossa.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> a few days ago but resisted the temptation to mention it. A bit more searching revealed yet another Mossa rendering of the theme which perhaps isn&#8217;t so surprising given the artist&#8217;s obsession with lethal women. The first exceeds all previous depictions of the Biblical temptress by having her actually licking blood from the executioner&#8217;s sword. In the third picture she&#8217;s content merely to use a severed hand as a page-turner while John the Baptist&#8217;s mutilated body is carted away by servants.<\/p>\n<p>The search for pictures turned up a blog I hadn&#8217;t seen before, <a href=\"http:\/\/bible-women.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women in the Bible<\/a> (&#8220;This is no religious blog!&#8221;), which has <a href=\"http:\/\/bible-women.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Salome\" target=\"_blank\">several Salom\u00e9 postings<\/a>. And there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/lesvoilesdesalome.hautetfort.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les voiles de Salom\u00e9<\/a>: Labyrinthique errance, virevoltes et volutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mossa6.jpg\" alt=\"mossa6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Encor Salom\u00e9 (1905).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mossa7.jpg\" alt=\"mossa7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Salom\u00e9 (1908).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-salome-archive\/\">The Salom\u00e9 archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salom\u00e9 (1901). Monsieur Wiley prompted this post by drawing my attention to the picture above. I&#8217;d already seen another Salom\u00e9 by Gustav Adolf Mossa on this page a few days ago but resisted the temptation to mention it. A bit more searching revealed yet another Mossa rendering of the theme which perhaps isn&#8217;t so surprising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/24\/mossas-salomes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mossa&#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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,31,45],"tags":[785,2197,1495,1506,1208,1870,1270,1490,123,1309],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-religion","category-symbolists","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-gustav-adolf-mossa","tag-john-vassos","tag-julius-klinger","tag-manuel-orazi","tag-marcus-behmer","tag-peter-reed","tag-rene-bull","tag-salome","tag-steven-berkoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","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=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}