Salome. The image of a fatal woman who was not

The name of Salome, who captivated King Herod and as a reward of John the Baptist as a reward, translated into Russian means "peaceful", "calm", which does not coincide with the centuries -old reputation of this fatal woman. In the book of Nezhinskaya, the history of the emergence of the myth of Salome and the transformation of its image is traced, as well as the formation and change in the attitude to this New Testament character in various eras, depending on the ideas of gender roles in society. The material of this richly illustrated study was the work of artists such as Filippo Lippi, Van Der Vaiden, Titian, Moro and Birdsley, as well as works by Mallarm, Wilde and Richard Strauss. Rozina Nezhinskaya - Professor of the University of Illinoi, USA, teaches literature and art history, author of the book "Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty. A Literary Ambassador Between East and West ", as well as several collections of poems