#findesiecle

Arthur Bianchini (1869-1955) Landscape 1905

“It was the strangest book that he had ever read. It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him ... It was a novel without a plot, and with only one character, being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian, who spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all the passions and modes of thought that belonged to every century except his own ... The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes. There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids, and as subtle in colour. The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book. The heavy odour of incense seemed to cling about its pages and to trouble the brain. The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming“

Julie Manet et sa levrette Laërte (Julie Manet and her Laerte Greyhound), 1893

Happy Easter, Spring, and all holidays of new beginnings! Tea for two in the garden today, and may our next holiday allow for gatherings. #happyeaster #happyspring #lilyabsinthestyle #antiquelace #edwardianstyle #labelleepoque #frenchlace #belleepoque #findesiecle #justacottonfrock #lilyabsinthe https://www.instagram.com/p/CNRLbxPFxRx/?igshid=adh2yy9cguvm

Torun Old Town, Poland, c15 (Copernicus House + St Johns Cathedral)

Signorine allegre fin de siecle #vintage #findesiecle #oldphotos #prostituta #bordello #lingerie #corsetto https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsz-XqGBDDR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13xkxmieqr135

Oggi sul blog la mia recensione della mostra “Arte e Magia. Il fascino dell’esoterismo in Europa”, a cui ho preso parte scrivendo alcune schede del catalogo. La mostra a @palazzoroverellarovigo prosegue fino al 27 gennaio 2019. 🦇 Link diretto sul profilo! 👆🏻 . . . ##arteemagia #palazzoroverella #rovigo #dreamersofdecadence #findesiecle #occultart #esotericart #esoterismo #rocailleblog https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpy7KAtghtk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18u6gfebi751z