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Nydia, the blind girl of Pompeii by William (Bill) McClung Via Flickr: Representation of the character from Bulwer-Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii" by Randolph Rogers, American, 1859. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Liz Constable et al., Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (UPenn Press, 1999), 4.

Referring to Max Nordau's infamous critical essay, Entartung (Degeneration), published 1892.

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Gustav Klimt, illustration of "January" calendar month, 1901 for Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring, official publication of the Vienna Secession artists movement)

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Agnes Doggett as a Bride - Lilian Westcott Hale

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