Decadence: a chronology
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- 1776-88
- 1789
- 1804
- First usage of term "art for art's sake" (L'art pour l'art, sans but, car tout but dénature l'art, Benjamin Constant, 1804)
- 1827
- E. Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus; painting
- 1835
- Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin; novel.
- 1847
- Thomas Couture, The Romans of the Decadence; painting.
- 1857
- Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal; poetry.
- 1859
- C. Darwin, The Origin of Species; science.
- 1862
- Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo; novel.
- 1863
- Cesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius; psychology.
- Edouard Manet, Olympia; painting.
- D.G. Rossetti, Beata Beatrix; painting.
- 1864
- Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting.
- Stéphane Mallarmé begins "Herodiade (dans « Poésies », 1887 );" and Afternoon of a Faun; poetry.
- 1868-70
- C. Baudelaire, Complete Works (including translations of Edgar Allan Poe).
- 1869
- Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Ducasse), Les Chants de Maldoror; novel.
- 1871
- Franco-Prussian war.
- Mallarme, "Herodiade" (fragment) published; poetry.
- 1873
- July; Paul Verlaine shoots Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.
- 1874
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques; short stories. Later illustrated by F. Rops.
- 1876
- Gustave Moreau, Salomé dansant devant Hérode[1]; painting.
- S. Mallarme, Afternoon of a Faun published; also translation of Poe's "The Raven."
- 1879
- Emile Zola, Nana; novel.
- 1881
- George Beard introduces the concept of neuresthenia (nervous exhaustion) in American Nervousness[2].
- 1882
- Odilon Redon, "À Edgar Poe," series of lithographs.
- Paul Bourget, Essais de psychologie contemporaine ; series of essays.
- 1884
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours; novel.
- Josephin Peladan, Le Vice suprème; novel.
- 1885
- Jules Laforgue, Les Complaintes; poetry.
- Odilon Redon, "Hommage à Goya;" lithographs.
- 1886
- Jean Moreas, "Symbolist Manifesto" published in Le Figaro.
- Felicien Rops, illustrations to Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques published.
- International labor strikes, riots.
- Le Décadent littéraire et artistique founded in Paris; Anatole Baju, ed. (continued publication to 1889 as Le Decadent); journal.
- Richard Krafft-Ebbing, Psychopathia Sexualis; psychology.
- 1889
- Rachilde, Monsieur Venus; novel of androgyny.
- Odilon Redon, Temptation of St. Anthony, illustrations to G. Flaubert, 2nd series (1st 1888, 3rd in 1896).
- 1891
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; novel.
- J.K. Huysmans, La Bas; novel.
- Paul Gauguin leaves for Tahiti.
- 1892
- Max Nordau, Degeneration; literary, artistic and social criticism.
- Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte; novel.
- 1893
- Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature," Harper`s New Monthly Magazine; expanded in 1899 as The Symbolist Movement in Literature; criticism.
- Franz von Stuck, Sin; painting (1st of 18 versions).
- Jean Delville, Orpheus[3]; painting.
- 1894
- Salome, written by Oscar Wilde; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
- The Yellow Book founded in London; journal.
- 1895
- Oscar Wilde trial.
- Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Studies on Hysteria; psychology.
- 1896
- Fernand Khnopff, The Caresses; painting.
- 1900
- Fernand Khnopff constructs his house, Villa Khnopff, 41 Avenue des Courses, Brussels.
- 1901
- Gustav Klimt, Judith I; painting.
- 1902
- Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings rejected by the University of Vienna.
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