PLANET ALICE

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. At the age of fifteen he made the acquaintance of Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900). The later was in the process of writing Salome in French. This tragedy tells us in one act the Biblical story of Salome, who dances the 'Dance of the Seven Veils' for her step father King Herod and asks for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward.