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. – Walter Pater
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)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1954. The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France, by 1399–1416)
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