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Sunday, February 10, 2019


AESTHETICISM
ITALY                                                                    ENGLAND

GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
                                     
                      OSCAR WILDE

           
poet/novelist/playwright    



poet/novelist/playwright











his greatest play               his greatest play
↳                                                               ↳
La figlia di Iorio 1904                   The importance of being Earnest  1895
                                                                    
                            ↘↙
                    Anti-conformist spirit
                         Foppish way of dressing
                     Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite 
                                          Movement
Who were the Pre-Raphaelites?








                                           



                                 ↘↙
                         Aesthetic ideal
Life is a creative act closely intertwined with art
The artist is beyond moral conventions
Art is an absolute value. It is the supreme form of life
My life is like a work of art
⏬                                                                                         ⏬
D'Annunzio Il Piacere                 Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
                      1889                                        1891
translated in English as
The Child of Pleasure

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