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The Ghost Monk

@theghostmonk.bsky.social

'Le Vice Supreme' (1884) by the always on-the-edge Felicien Rops.
#31DaysOfHalloween #horror #findesiecle #decadence #Victorian

October 27, 2026 at 10:02 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #October22 (or #October23), 1844: #BOTD: #HBD #SarahBernhardt!
#Actresses #Beauties #Jews #Stage #Theatre #Theatre #AlexandreDumas #VictorHugo #Shakespeare #Hamlet #BelleEpoque #LaBelleEpoque #FinDeSiecle #TheatreSky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_B...

October 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM

Jurjen K. vanderHoek

@jurjenkvanderhoek.bsky.social

Beschouwing "Siebe ten Cate, de vergeten impressionist in Parijs. Uitgave WBOOKS ism. Siebe ten Cate Stichting, 2026.
#SiebetenCate #WBOOKS #impressionisme #schilderijen #findesiècle
Lees de tekst op KUNST-stukjes (klik de link):
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October 15, 2026 at 10:38 AM

Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

“Jove decadent. Després del ball” (Decadent Young Woman. After the Ball) by Ramon Casas (Spanish) – Oil on canvas / 1899 – Museu de Montserrat (Montserrat, Spain) #WomenInArt #RamonCasas #Casas #MuseudeMontserrat #art #artText #arte #CatalanArt #Modernisme #FinDeSiecle #SpanishArt #1890sArt

A woman has collapsed across a green sofa, her body stretched almost diagonally from one end to the other. Spanish artist Ramon Casas makes exhaustion the subject of “Jove decadent. Després del ball.” The woman’s black dress spreads heavily across the cushions and toward the floor, while one arm hangs loosely over the sofa’s edge. Her head sinks into a pillow, her face turned away from us, and the loose arrangement of her reddish-brown hair adds to the sense that formal appearances no longer matter. Only a small yellow booklet in her raised hand interrupts the scene.

The woman was Madeleine Boisguillaume, a Parisian model who appears in several works associated with Casas and his circle. Here she is neither standing for inspection nor performing a carefully controlled social pose. Instead, Casas catches her in a private moment after the excitement of a dance. Her elongated body, dangling hand, and almost boneless posture communicate physical fatigue immediately. Yet the pose also feels strikingly modern. She occupies the sofa completely, taking up space without attempting to present herself gracefully for us.

Casas painted the work in Paris in 1899, during a period when he moved between the French capital and Barcelona and became one of the leading figures associated with Catalan Modernisme. Later that year, the painting appeared in Barcelona in a monographic exhibition connected with Pèl & Ploma, the influential art and literary magazine Casas helped create.

Within the turn-of-the-century atmosphere of the fin de siècle blurring languor, sophistication, nightlife, and unconventional behavior, Boisguillaume does not look morally ruined or dramatically tragic. She simply looks spent. Against the vivid green upholstery, her black silhouette is both elegant and wonderfully unguarded. The painting turns a moment after dancing has stopped and social performance has temporarily fallen away into its own kind of memory.

October 11, 2026 at 3:26 PM

The Ghost Monk

@theghostmonk.bsky.social

Aubrey Beardsley, 'The Murders In The Rue Morgue'.
#EdgarAllanPoe #Poe #AubreyBeardsley #Beardsley #findesiecle #art

October 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #September10, 1898: #DOTD: #RIP #EmpressElisabethOfAustria, #assassinated by anarchist #LuigiLucheni.
#TurnOfTheTwentiethCentury #FinDeSiecle #LaBelleEpoque
#VictorianEra #AustriaHungary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress...

September 10, 2026 at 1:12 AM

The Ghost Monk

@theghostmonk.bsky.social

'Open Both Doors And Let 'Em All Come In' - an 1898 illustration by Hans Reitz. Like a few other illustrators of the period, Reitz is definitely channeling Sidney Sime here.
#weird #weirdart #art #findesiecle #devil #hell

A crowd of people of many different types, including soldiers and fashionable ladies - but led by a clergyman and a monk - are walking through the doors of Hell, opened by two devils.

August 21, 2026 at 10:40 AM

Dr Marina Cano

@drmarinacano.bsky.social

😲Surprised and delighted to find my article “A Woman's Novel: Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird, and Hélène Cixous's Écriture Féminine” (2019) listed among the most read in Victoriographies!

🙀Open access too www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

#NewWoman #FinDeSiecle #OliveSchreiner #Cixous

August 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM

stevemid.bsky.social

@stevemid.bsky.social

#RebeccaWest Another definition of #findesiècle

January 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM

FLOMM 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝖺𝗍𝗍𝗅𝖾 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗆𝗈𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗇 1923

@flomm.us

félix vallotton
sleeping woman
1899

#art
#arthistory
#modernart
#findesiècle
#lesnabis
#magicrealism
#sleepstudy

dream like oil painting of a sleeping woman in bed with a tartan patterned blanket and gold embellished floral cover

December 27, 2024 at 9:10 AM

Page & Postage | Bibliophile & Stamp Collector

@pageandpostage.bsky.social

📖✨ Author of the Day: Max Nordau & His Groundbreaking Work “Degeneration” 🎭🖋️

www.instagram.com/p/DFK0wODOQT...

#MaxNordau #Degeneration #CulturalCriticism #19thCenturyThought #LiteraryClassics #PhilosophyAndArt #FinDeSiècle

January 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM

t0, bluer & aloft

@azuler0.bsky.social

everything these days feels like a grift or a grab, some clearly aspiring to or even attaining monopolistic or fascist exclusivity.

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#findesiecle

December 1, 2024 at 10:00 PM

Massiou de l'Illégal

@plutoboy.bsky.social

J'ADORE LA LITTÉRATURE findesiecle JAVAIJ'AVAIS OUBLIE

January 24, 2024 at 10:44 PM

Matthew Creasy

@matthewcreasy.bsky.social

My edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" is out! If you're interested in the findesiècle, Decadence, Symbolism, impressionism, artwriting, literary criticism, French culture, autobiography, auto fiction or smocks, you might like it ... or hate it...

www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

www.mhra.org.uk

May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM

Jonathan Emmesedi

@jemmesedi.c.im.ap.brid.gy

Musette http://collections.mfa.org/objects/552171/musette

#art #lithograph #france #FinDeSiècle #raphaelkirchner #cigarette #musette

March 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM

audioso | Philosophische Audiothek an der Uni Wien

@philaudioso.bsky.social

#zumnachhören #PhilosophischeBrocken vom 27.3.2024

Hans Kelsen und die österreichische Wissenschaftkultur

Symposium zum 50. Todestag von Hans Kelsen

mimi.phl.univie.ac.at/view?m=nvJIu...

Gekürzte Fassungen der Vorträge von Horst Dreier, Franz Fillafer, Johannes Feichtinger

#FindeSiècle

April 4, 2024 at 12:16 PM

Steven

@steven-burgess.bsky.social

Ey up, Bluesky! I'm here for all things De Morgan, Pre-Raphaelite, and fin de siècle - especially around links between social class and the environment. I'm currently applying for a PhD starting in 2025.

#ecocriticism #demorgan #williamdemorgan #titmarshclub #preraphalite #findesiecle #socialclass

Steven crouched in front of a stome fireplace which is tiled with the William De Morgan Green Galleon design.

November 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM

BINI

@binipublishing.bsky.social

Coming soon.

#AgainstNature #Huysmans #DecadentLiterature #DesEsseintes #AestheteNovel #SymbolistMovement #FrenchLiterature #FinDeSiecle #LiteraryDecadence #19thCenturyNovel

July 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM

Smell Studies Group

@smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social

#NewBook: "«L’odorat a ses monstres». Olfaction et perversion dans l’imaginaire fin-de-siècle (1880-1905)" by S.-V. Borloz (in French), published Open Access!

Info: www.peeters-leuven.b...

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #hstm #findesiècle #lithub

August 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM

That Old Broadbean

@thatoldbear.bsky.social

At least the switch-over era between the 19th to 20th is in French:) #FinDeSiecle

May 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

@libraryaac.bsky.social

Happy #NewYear 2026!
We are entering the new year at high speed, with this new study by Eva Chen on the #NewWoman & technologies of speed (as cyclist & typist) in #FindeSiècle #EnglishLiterature 🚴‍♀️💨💨💨

#VictorianLiterature #HappyNewYear #LiteraryStudies #LateVictorianism #VictorianStudies

Holding the book "The New Woman & Technologies of Speed in Fin-de-Siècle Literature" by Eva Chen in front of several bicycles parked in bike stands, the closest one sporting a colourful handmade, knitted sleeve in several colours

January 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

@libraryaac.bsky.social

It's #NewYearsEve - the last night of the old year 🔮
Feeling esoteric tonight? Deja Whitehouse's study "The Lady and the Beast" explores the partnership of #ThothTarot creators #FriedaHarris & #AleisterCrowley - key figures of Western #esotericism

#Tarot #GoldenDawn #findesiècle #VictorianCulture