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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | In his 1884 novel À rebours Frenchman Joris-Karl Huysmans describes in somewhat fevered terms the depiction of Salome in Moreau's painting: ________ No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice the goddess of immortal Hysteria the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse indifferent irresponsible insensible poisoning. | | Headline | No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body | | Keywords | Salome St-John beheading | | Copyright Notice | wiki/Gustave_Moreau | | Byline (Photographer) | Gustave-Moreau | | URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau |
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