References Flashcards
Dante
“Make themselves perfect by the worship of beauty”
“To then he seemed to be of the company of those whom Dante describes as having sought to ‘make themselves perfect by the worship of beauty.’” Ch.11
Stmbolises
Late 19th century art movement
Ch.10
Gautier
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“The visible world existed”
“Like Gautier, he was one for whom ‘the visible world existed.’” Ch.11
Mayfair Balls
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“…[his mode of dressing] had their marked influence on the young exquisites of the Mayfair balls and Pall Mall club windows…” Ch.11
Satyricon
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“…a subtle pleasure pleasure in the thought that he might really become to the London if his day what to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the “Satyricon” once had been.” Ch.11
Alfonso (Alonso) de Ovalle
Chilean priest and chronicler of Chilean history. (1603 - 1651)
Known for writing about the conquest of Chile and the Aracou war.
Tannhäuser
Opera by Richard Wagner (1845)
Prelude synopsis -
Ch.11 reference to the prelude - “…listening in rapt pleasure to Tannhäuser, and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.”
Acanthus
Flowering plant. Symbolism- enduring life.
Typically displayed in funerary celebrations.
Christian symbolism- (plant’s thorns) pain.
Seraph
(Christian) Angel of highest orders associated with light, ardor, and purity.
St. Sebastian
DescriptionSaint Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian’s persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him. - wiki
Killed by arrow by Diocletian.
Symbol- arrow
Patron saint or athletes, warriors, and soldiers.
Blue Gate Fields
Victorian London slum North if the old east London docks
