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Alméry Lobel-Riche (1877–1950), The Sun of Death, 1922
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Alméry Lobel-Riche (1877–1950), The Sun of Death, 1922
Ramon Casas (1866-1932) "A Decadent Girl" (1899) Located in the Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain
Book bindings for various editions of Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”
La parodie humaine, Félicien Rops, 1878
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Chocolate Brownies
Woman with a Skull, 1916. Eduard Wiiralt.
As his cult grew he began to celebrate travestied offices in which he distributed to his congregation aphrodisiac pills presenting this peculiarity, that after having swallowed them the men believed themselves changed into women and the women into men. "The recipe for these hippomanes is lost," continued Des Hermies with almost a sad smile.
from Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Decadent literature chart
Decay, beauty, and everything in between! This is a selection from my list of 90 alluring and disquieting works of literary decadence.