“A Man of the Nineteenth Century”

Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Undergroundand Decadent Romanticism

Gustave Moreau

The Suitors, 1852

Salomé Dancing Before Herod, 1876

Salomé, 1876

The Death of SardanapalusEugène Delacroix, 1828

Attila and His Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts

Eugène Delacroix, 1847

The Romans of the DecadenceThomas Couture, 1847

The Course of Empire: DestructionThomas Cole, 1836

Genseric’s Invasion of RomeKarl Briullov, 1835

The Last Day of PompeiiKarel Briullov, 1836

Scene During the Eruption of VesuviusJoseph Franque, c. 1827

The Reader of DostoevskyEmil Filla, 1907

Gautier and Followers in the Pompeian House, 1861

CleopatraMassimo Stanzione, 1630s

The Banquet of CleopatraGiovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1744

Cleopatra Before CaesarJean-Léon Gérôme, 1866

CleopatraGustave Moreau, 1887

Cleopatra Testing Poisonson Condemned Men

Alexandre Cabanel, 1887

Napoleon in CairoJean-Léon Gérôme, 1863