A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi ...

Influenced by Caravaggio, a rare work by the Baroque artist Diana de Rosa's fetched nearly half a million dollars at ...

The architecture of a cave in Israel indicates that it was the burial site of a royal family member linked to Herod the Great.

That Salome, recorded in the Bible as ordering the beheading of John the Baptist, would later be immortalized in an array of fictional works like Oscar Wilde’ s 1893 play and the subsequent 1905 ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

Her Salome has a habit of mimicry. When she copies the gestures that Jochanaan — the opera’s John the Baptist — makes while praying, we realize queasily that her molesting of the servant ...

Salome has been described as a tone poem with voices. At times, the balance between stage and pit was far from ideal, with several vocal passages nearly inaudible.

Imago Theatre satiates these lusts with an English translation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, an early play using the biblical story of John the Baptist’s execution as a vehicle for his deeply 19th ...

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The entitled Salome whirls John the Baptist’s head around in ecstatic triumph, blood running down her cheeks and onto her dress as she finally kisses the lips he’d been unwilling to yield.

Drawn from a Bible story, it’s the tale of Herod’s vengeful teen stepdaughter who agrees to dance for him if he rewards her with a gift, which turns out to be the head of John the Baptist ...