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Charles Baudelaire
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Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantic
Baudelaire c. 1862
Baudelaire c. 1862
Portrait of Baudelaire at 23 years old, painted in 1844 by Émile Deroy (1820–1846)
Portrait of Baudelaire at 23 years old, painted in 1844 by Émile Deroy (1820–1846)
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal with author's notes
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal with author's notes
Illustration cover for Les Épaves, by Baudelaire's friend Félicien Rops
Illustration cover for Les Épaves, by Baudelaire's friend Félicien Rops
Decadent movement
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The Decadent movement was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
Charles Baudelaire
…rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban sensibility, an awareness of individual moral complexity, an interest in vice (linked with decadence) and refined sensual and aesthetic pleasures, and the use of urban subject matter, such as the city, the crowd, individual passers-by, all expressed…
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov