“What is décadence? It is the keenest sense of organic connection with the monumental legacy of the high culture of the past, along with the painfully proud awareness that we are the last of its kind.”
Viacheslav Ivanov and M. O. Gershenson, Perepiska iz Dvukh Uglov, 1921
quoted by Andrei Ariev in The Intelligentsia without Revolution: The Culture of the Silver Age
Francisco Goya - The Dog - 1819
J. M. W. Turner - Three Seascapes - 1827
J. A. Whistler - Colour Scheme for the dining room of Aubrey House - 1873
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