Joris-Karl Huysmans (1906)

Giovanni Boldoni

“Robert Conte de

Montesquiou”(1897)

Siegfried Bing and Art Nouveau (1895)http://lartnouveau.com/documents/boutique_bing_art_nouveau.htm

Andrea Mantegna’s “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” (1495) and El Greco, “Christ Driving the Traders

from the Temple” (1600)

Rodolphe Bresdin

“Comédie de la mort”(1854)

Gustave DoréIllustrations

forDanté’s Inferno(1857)

Sandow Birk, Dante’s

Inferno (2004)

“The Flaming Spirits of the Evil Counselors”

Suicides then and now…

And where exactly is Hell?

Gustave Moreau“Orpheus”

(1865)

Moreau, “The Apparition” (1874-76)

Moreau, “The Apparition” (1874-76)

Rédon“Head of a Saint”

(1877)

Rédon“Orpheus”

(1903)

Odilon Rédonfrom

“To Edgar Allen Poe”(1882)

Rédon,from “To

Edgar Allen Poe: The Eye

Like a Strange Balloon Moves

Toward Infinity”(1882)

Odilon Rédon, “Cyclops” (1883) and “Smiling Spider” (1881)http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/redon/charcoals/

Rédon“Crying Spider”(1881)