David Weir

That opinion was reasserted in 1834 by the traditionalist critic Désiré Nisard

Decadence, it turns out, is a style, one that draws the reader’s attention to individual words and phrases at the expense of the whole, that indulges in imaginative flourishes rather than reasoned discourse

While Couture does not single out the art of ancient Rome in the prospectus for his school, The Romans of the Decadence obviously does,

in 1859, the same year the artist painted The Absinthe Drinker, a work that breaks new artistic ground.

“the pupil of Goya and of Charles Baudelaire.

a student of Goya and Baudelaire

“Les Sept Viellards” (The seven old men),

human nature is fundamentally evil, not goo

Nietzsche ultimately defines morality quite succinctly as “the idiosyncrasy of decadents, with the ulterior motive of revenging oneself against life—successfully

novelists Jules and Edmond de Goncourt