Quiet, Reposed

Quiet, Reposed
The Fetish of Silence and the Femme Fragile

Flowers of Evil: Paul Gauguin's Decadent Imagination and the Concept and Culture of the Fin-de-Siècle
The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all “the ends of the world are come,” and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh.
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There is no more accurate documentation of the manner in which a culture perceives its moral and social mission than in the works of visual art it produces. (Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity)

Fetish of Silence

Antonio Mancini
Resting
c. 1887
oil on canvas
25 3/8” x 39 5/8”
Art Institute of Chicago

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This looks a bit like her. At night, sometimes, I go mad with desire; the feel of her burning center, wrapped around me.
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Antonio Mancini Resting c. 1887 oil on canvas 25 3/8” x 39 5/8” Art Institute of Chicago
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