Art Nouveau Alfons Mucha Salome 1897 Vintage Art Print

Salome is one of artworks by Alfonse Mucha. Artwork analysis, large resolution images, user comments, interesting facts and much more.. Mythological creatures - fauns, chimeras, sphinxes, biblical characters - occupied the Imagination of the Symbolists. But the most popular among the Old Testament characters, extremely attractive to poets and playwrights of the second half of the XIX century, was the image of Salome. A female bane, a wicked virgin, a dangerous charmer attracted the attention of Alphonse Mucha. Following D.

Salome by Alphonse Mucha - discover more in our gallery of famous Alphonse Mucha paintings.. Introduction Alphonse Mucha's 1897 lithograph "Salomé" condenses the fin-de-siècle imagination into a single, poised figure: a dancer mid-gesture, a hoop-like instrument raised in her hands, braids coiling with ringed loops, a jeweled belt chiming with tassels, and a background that hums with concentric waves of dots and pale color. Instead of the biblical heroine as a bearer of the.