Fin de siècle
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"Fin de siècle" is a French term meaning 'end of century', a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom turn of the century and also makes reference to the closin
"Bilan fin-de-siècle! Promising and keeping are two", anti-republican caricature by Achille Lemot [fr], from newspaper Le Pèlerin (1900)
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Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, whose philosophy influenced the culture of fin de siècle
The Belgian symbolist Fernand Khnopff's The Caress
Irish Aesthetic writer Oscar Wilde
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
Fin de siècle
…that were recognized as prominent in the 1880s and 1890s, including ennui, cynicism, pessimism, and "a widespread belief that civilization leads to decadence." The term fin de siècle is commonly applied to French art and artists, as the traits of the culture first appeared there, but the movement affected…
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)