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Revisiting Salome's Dance in Medieval and Early Modern Iconology

Revisiting Salome's Dance in Medieval and Early Modern Iconology

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Series: Studies in Iconology, Book 7

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ISBN10: 904293428X
ISBN13: 9789042934283
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Nov 24 2016
Pages: 98
Weight: 1.18
Language: English
Mark 6:14-29 and Matthew 14:1-12 recount the death of John the Baptist. Herod had him imprisoned for denouncing as incestuous his marriage to Herodias, the former wife of his brother. During a banquet, Herodias' daughter dances before Herod, who is so enchanted that he promises her a favor. At her mother's behest, she asks for the head of John the Baptist. The king honors her request and has the head delivered to her on a plate (in disco), which she gives to her mother. When the disciples of John discover about his death, they bury his headless body. In this essay, Baert revisits the iconographic motif of the dancing girl from an interdisciplinary perspective involving exegesis, gender, anthropology, ritual performance, psycho-energetics, Pathosformeln and paragone.

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