Oscar Wilde’s Salome

For Tine with love. Happy Birthday !!!! Gustave Moreau painted the most fitting illustrations of Salomé; or, more accurately, Wilde wrote a play to fit Moreau’s paintings, at least the vision given to him by Huysman: “My Herod is like the Herod of Gustave Moreau, wrapped in his jewels and sorrows. My Salome is a mystic, the sister of Salammbô, a Sainte Thérèse who worships the moon.“ No other version of Salomé pleased him. He rejected in turn