Podoby Salome v díle Jaroslava Vrchlického
The Imagery of Salome in Vrchlický’s Work

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th century, the image of Salome was transformed by significant changes that reflect contemporary social phenomena and changes in national literatures. Among the artists who depicted Salome in this period, whether in the context of Bible story or in the end of the century form of the femme fatale, Jaroslav Vrchlický forms an exception. In his work, it is possible to find several different images of Salome, which not only correspond to his artistic development, but at the same time they reflect his views foreign literatures, especially those from Western Europe, from which he was translating. The aim of the study is not only to describe the images of Salome in Vrchlický’s work, but also to incorporate the selected scenes or allusions to the story of John the Baptist’s beheading into the context of the author’s work and, last but not least, track down possible sources of inspiration that reflected themselves in the imagery of Salome, in Vrchlický’s translation work.

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