Decadence
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Decadence was a late-19th-century movement emphasizing the need for sensationalism, egocentricity, and bizarre, artificial, perverse, and exotic sensations and experiences. By extension, it may refer
An orgy in Imperial Rome, by Henryk Siemiradzki
Romans during the Decadence, by Thomas Couture
Heliogabalus, High Priest of the Sun by Simeon Solomon (1866)
The Roses of Heliogabalus by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1888)
Libertine
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A libertine is a person questioning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits as unnecessary, undesirable or evil. A liber
Decadence
…sensations and experiences. By extension, it may refer to a decline in art, literature, science, technology, and work ethics, or (very loosely) to self-indulgent behavior. Usage of the term sometimes implies moral censure, or an acceptance of the idea, met with throughout the world since ancient times, that such…
The 2nd Earl of Rochester, a notorious English libertine
Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo