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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Work Title (display):
Mors Syphilitica
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Work Dates (display):
unknown
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2012-08-24
Work Creator (display):
Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898)
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Belgian printmaker and painter. Rops settled in Paris in 1874, and rapidly established himself as an illustrator of esoteric and erotic literature. He was admired by many of the leading symbolist writers, including J. K. Huysmans and, most importantly, Baudelaire, who was responsible for launching him into the Parisian art world. Rops's art developed from Symbolism towards Surrealism in his metamorphic depictions of obscene and blasphemous monsters. He also explored the darker aspects of Satanism and the occult. His best works are the illustrations he produced for Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal, and Joséphin Péladan's Le Vice suprême, and a series of etchings, Les Sataniques, which exploit his talent for the depiction of contemporary evil and his hostility to women to devastating effect, as in Pornokrates (1896; etching). Hailed as the leader of 'Dark Symbolism', he rejected the lyrical aspects of the movement in favour of deliberately shocking images and juxtapositions, perverse, erotic, and bizarre. (Hopkins, Justine. "Rops, Félicien." The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Ed. Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford Art Online. 13 Sep. 2012 .)
Work Style Period:
19th century
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19th century
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Work Subject:
female
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female
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Work Subject:
monsters (legendary beings)
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monsters (legendary beings)
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Work Subject:
eroticism
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eroticism
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Work Subject:
violence
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violence
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
darkness
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darkness
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Work Subject:
weapons
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weapons
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Work Subject:
nudes (representations)
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nudes (representations)
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Work Subject:
Hell
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Hell
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Work Subject:
death
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death
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Work Worktype:
drypoints (prints)
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drypoints (prints)
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Work Worktype:
prints (visual works)
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prints (visual works)
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prints
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Work Measurements (display):
222 cm (H) x 162 cm (W)
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Rops, Félicien, Edvard Munch, Jonathan Penfold, Paul Louis, Luc Schrobiltgen, and Jan Ung. Félicien Rops, Edvard Munch: Man, Woman. Brussel: Transpetrol Foundation, 2006. Print.
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Rops, Félicien, Edvard Munch, Jonathan Penfold, Paul Louis, Luc Schrobiltgen, and Jan Ung. Félicien Rops, Edvard Munch: Man, Woman. Brussel: Transpetrol Foundation, 2006. Print.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
9788992074148
Image Source Reproduction page number:
57
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
7
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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