Decadence: a chronology  

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This list by Jeffery Howe is the curator of Fernand Khnopff: Inner Visions and Landscapes, on view at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art through December 5, 2004, and is the author of The Symbolist Art of Fernand Khnopff (Michigan, 1982).

• 1776-88
  • Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; history.
• 1789
  • French Revolution.
• 1804
• First usage of term "art for art's sake" (in France). check!
• 1827
• E. Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus; painting
• 1835
• Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin; novel.
• 1847
• Thomas Couture, The Romans of the Decadence; painting.
• 1857
• Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal; poetry.
• 1859
• C. Darwin, The Origin of Species; science.
• 1862
• Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo; novel.
• 1863
• Cesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius; psychology.
• Edouard Manet, Olympia; painting.
• D.G. Rossetti, Beata Beatrix; painting.
• 1864
• Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting.
• Stéphane Mallarmé begins "Herodiade;" and Afternoon of a Faun; poetry.
• 1868-70
• C. Baudelaire, Complete Works (including translations of Edgar Allan Poe).
• 1869
• Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Ducasse), Chants de Maldoror; novel.
• 1871
• Franco-Prussian war.
• Mallarme, "Herodiade" (fragment) published; poetry.
• 1873
• July; Paul Verlaine shoots Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.
• 1874
• Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques; short stories. Later illustrated by F. Rops.
• 1876
• Gustave Moreau, Salome; painting.
• S. Mallarme, Afternoon of a Faun published; also translation of Poe's "The Raven."
• 1879
• Emile Zola, Nana; novel.
• 1881
• George Beard introduces the concept of neuresthenia (nervous exhaustion) in American Nervousness.
• 1882
• Odilon Redon, "A E.A. Poe," series of lithographs.
• Paul Bourget, Essais de Psychologie contemporaine; essay.
• 1884
• Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours; novel.
• Josephin Peladan, Le Vice suprème; novel.
• 1885
• Jules Laforgue, Complaintes; poetry.
• Odilon Redon, "Hommage a Goya;" lithographs.
• 1886
• Jean Moreas, "Symbolist Manifesto" published in Le Figaro.
• Felicien Rops, illustrations to Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques published.
• International labor strikes, riots.
• Le Decadent litteraire et artistique founded in Paris; Anatole Baju, ed. (continued publication to 1889 as Le Decadent); journal.
• Richard Krafft-Ebbing, Psychopathia sexualis; psychology.
• 1889
• Rachilde, Monsieur Venus; novel of androgyny.
• Odilon Redon, Temptation of St. Anthony, illustrations to G. Flaubert, 2nd series (1st 1888, 3rd in 1896).
• 1891
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; novel.
• J.K. Huysmans, La Bas; novel.
• Paul Gauguin leaves for Tahiti.
• 1892
• Max Nordau, Degeneration; literary, artistic and social criticism.
• Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte; novel.
• 1893
• Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature," Harper`s New Monthly Magazine; expanded in 1899 as The Symbolist Movement in Literature; criticism.
• Franz von Stuck, Sin; painting (1st of 18 versions).
• Jean Delville, Orpheus; painting.
• 1894
• Salome, written by Oscar Wilde; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
• The Yellow Book founded in London; journal.
• 1895
• Oscar Wilde trial.
• Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Studies on Hysteria; psychology.
• 1896
• Fernand Khnopff, The Caresses; painting.
• 1900
• Fernand Khnopff constructs his house in Brussels.
• 1901
• Gustav Klimt, Judith I; painting.
• 1902
  • Klimt's murals rejected by the University of Vienna.