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The causes of the decadence that is bringing the Institute to ruins are multiple, but most of them can be identified with its commercial and industrial activities and its management.

Over the next 18 years, he experiments with every vice, mostly under the influence of a " poisonous " French decadence novel, a present from Lord Henry.

His books, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture ( 1750 ) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (" History of Ancient Art ", 1764 ) were the first to distinguish sharply between Ancient Greek and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a trajectory from growth to maturity and then imitation or decadence that continues to have influence to the present day.

Beardsley's work reflected the decadence of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period Art Nouveau artists like Pape and Clarke.

In the late 18th century these coiffures ( along with many other indulgences in court life ) became symbolic of the decadence of the French nobility, which helped to fuel the French Revolution ( although its influence is exaggerated ).

Due to Spanish transition to democracy and rise of " Movida culture ", the musical genre felt into a decadence of production and box-office, only saved by Carlos Saura and his flamenco musical films.

The political crisis brought about by this disaster led Indalecio Prieto to say in the Congress of Deputies: " We are at the most acute period of Spanish decadence.

In 2005 he directed his first feature film, Santa Miguel de Molina, a portrait of the rise and decadence of the Spanish homosexual community, the corruption of some gay lobby groups, and the stigmatization of queers by the conservative urban gay elite.

A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.

The 790s BC witnessed the surging power of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, albeit a brief moment of weakness following in subsequent decades, the further decadence of Egypt, and the beginnings of civilization with the rise of the city-states in Ancient Greece.

The subject of the decadence of the Roman Empire was a frequent source of literary images and appears in the works of many poets of the period, regardless of which name they chose for their style, as in Verlaine's " Langueur ":

::(" I am the Empire at the end of the decadence, who watches the large, white barbarians passing, while composing lazy acrostic poems in a gilded style in which the languor of the sun dances.

At the end of the Roman Empire, Julia Libyca entered a period of decadence, and lost much of its importance.

The first book is a plea for army reform ; it vividly portrays the military decadence of the Late Roman Empire.

The notion of Empire contained in itself its ascendance and its decadence, as in Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 ), which was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

He also argued that contemporary progress was opposite the true decadence of the Roman Empire.

Portraying the military decadence of the Late Roman Empire, it is a plea for army reform.

The working class of Paris were feeling ostracized after the decadence of the Second Empire and the Franco-Prussian War.

In nineteenth century, the growth of the textile industry in western Europe, the introduction of mass production methods, the Capitulations signed between the Empire and many European countries and the forestalling-always by European merchants-of the raw materials needed to produce goods in the Empire's closed Economy, were factors which all together provoked the decadence of the Market.

The traditional interpretation of this period was centered around the idea of decadence from a ' golden age ', classical civilization, after the famous work of Edward Gibbon The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire ( 1779 ).

If Petronius pointed out excess of rhetoric and the pompous, unnatural techniques of the schools of eloquence as the causes of decay, Tacitus was nearer to Longinus in thinking that the root of this decadence was the establishment of Princedom, or Empire, which, though it brought stability and peace, also gave rise to censorship and brought an end to freedom of speech.

By 2258 the Centauri Empire had dwindled to a few colony worlds and Centauri Prime itself, seemingly more through the growing apathy and decadence of the Republic than military inferiority.

The framing of the series is resolutely Biblical: opening with Eve ( Le sacre de la femme ) and closing on La trompette du jugement, the classical world is largely forgotten ( the Roman Empire, for which Hugo had little admiration, is represented only by its decadence ).

He distinguishes an inter-war period in which it manifested itself in elite-led but populist " armed party " politics opposing socialism and liberalism and promising radical politics to rescue the nation from decadence.

Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity, decadence and zealotry which was likely exaggerated by his successors and political rivals.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

The moral or political response is given by the conservative philosopher Richard M. Weaver in Ideas Have Consequences, where he describes how the acceptance of " the fateful doctrine of nominalism " was " the crucial event in the history of Western culture ; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence ".

Theophanu was also criticized for her decadence, which manifested in her bathing once a day and introducing luxurious garments and jewelry into Germany.

The débâcle in which the reign of Napoleon III of France culminated may have imparted a note of decadence to certain of the novels about France in the years before that disastrous defeat.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

Yet, in the children of Buddenbrook Jr., the materially comfortable style of life provided by the dedication to solid, middle-class values elicits decadence: The fickle daughter, Toni, lacks and seeks no purpose in life ; son Christian is honestly decadent, and lives the life of a ne ’ er-do-well ; and the businessman son, Thomas, who assumes command of the Buddenbrook family fortune, occasionally falters from middle-class solidity by being interested in art and philosophy, the impractical life of the mind, which, to the bourgeoisie, is the epitome of social, moral, and material decadence.

The less fortunate nobles, jealous of this exclusive oligarchy, and openly watchful of the decadence and disorder associated with luxury, placed themselves at the head of a party which showed its determination to rely on purer models and to attach much importance to the ancient ways.

His wife, Zinaida Gippius, also a major poet of early symbolism, opened a salon in St Petersburg, which came to be known as the " headquarters of Russian decadence.

It was thinly disguised as " West Egg ," in counterpoint to Manor Haven / Sands Point, which was the inspiration for the more posh " East Egg " ( the next peninsula over on Long Island Sound ), Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City to then-remote suburbs.

In another, the arrival of pop culture and motorcycles propels Don Camillo into fighting " decadence ", a struggle in which he finds he has his hands full, especially when the Christ mainly smiles benevolently on the young rascals.

It has connotations of decadence, which are seen as typical for the last years of a culturally vibrant period ( La Belle Époque at the turn of the 19th to 20th century and until World War I ), and of anticipative excitement about, or despair facing, impending change, or both, that is generally expected when a century or time period draws to a close.

He was initially a practitioner of the style of Symbolism, and wrote the Symbolist Manifesto ( 1886 ), which he published in the newspaper Le Figaro, partly to redeem the reputation of the new generation of young writers from the charge of " decadence " that the press had implied.

The conflagration of the Royal Theater in 1824 was another symbol of decadence, which reached the most critical point when Peter I renounced the throne, going back to Portugal.

In this mural, the viewer sees a depiction of the rich, whose faces and bodies are obviously distorted, which is meant " to represent their decadence and abuses of power " and the working class.

Through her we sense the consequences of the decadence and depravity in which the Compsons have lived for decades.

Alarm over social degeneration and societal decadence further fanned concerns over the woman's movement and female liberalisation, which challenged the traditional conception of Victorian womanhood.