Fin de Siècle - Essential Bibliography

'Dreamers of Decadence' by Philippe Jullian
An essential volume exploring the fatalistic mindset
of the Decadent artist.

'Romantic Agony' by Mario Praz
A thorough retrospective on the dying days of Romanticism
and the rise of Decadent literature and art

"Gustave Moreau" by Genevieve Lacambre - a biography on one of the most
influential and reclusive painter of the Belle Epoque era.

'The Symbolist Generation, 1870-1910' by Pierre-Louis Mathieu
Though out of print, it's an absolute must-have. Beautifully illustrated
and finely written tome.

" The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts: Symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910"
by Andrew Wilton, Tate Gallery Publishing Limited, barbara Bryant, Robert Upstone
Companion catalogue to a major traveling exhibit out of the Tate Britain in London.
Beautifully illustrated and well-written.

The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art : Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer
by John Christian, Mary Anne Stevens, Barbican Art Gallery

"Kingdom of the Soul: Symbolist Art in Germany, 1870-1920"
by Ingrid Ehrhardt, Simon Reynolds, Hans Henrik Brummer,
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Waldemarsudde
Beautiful catalogue of these little-known generation of German artists, from Karl Leipold,
to Franz von Stuck to Heinrich Vogeler. Richly illustrated in color.