Joris-Karl Huysmans (1906)

Giovanni Boldoni “Robert Conte de Montesquiou” (1897)

Siegfried Bing and Art Nouveau (1895)

Andrea Mantegna’s “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” (1495) and El Greco, “Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple” (1600)

Rodolphe Bresdin “Comédie de la mort” (1854)

Gustave Doré Illustrations for Danté’s Inferno (1857)

Sandow Birk, Dante’s Inferno (2004)

“The Flaming Spirits of the Evil Counselors”

Suicides then and now…

And where exactly is Hell?

Gustave Moreau “Orpheus” (1865)

Moreau, “The Apparition” ( )

Rédon “Head of a Saint” (1877)

Rédon “Orpheus” (1903)

Odilon Rédon from “To Edgar Allen Poe” (1882)

Rédon, from “To Edgar Allen Poe: The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Moves Toward Infinity” (1882)

Odilon Rédon, “Cyclops” (1883) and “Smiling Spider” (1881)

Rédon “Crying Spider” (1881)