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Edmund Leighton (1853–1922) - The Accolade (1901) Author/Artist Edmund Leighton (1853–1922) Title English: The Accolade Description Korean: 기사 서훈식에서 칼을 눕혀 어깨를 치는 의식 Date 1901 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions . Current location Private collection References . Source/Photographer Art Renewal Center Museum , image 5211 . http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Permission United States Public Domain Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 80 years or less. From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Venus at the Bath (1901) Artist John William Godward (1861–1922) Title Venus at the Bath Year 1901 Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 67 3/4 × 24 inches (172.1 × 61 cm) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godward-Venus_at_the_Bath-1901.jpg Oil paintings of women | Venus (dea) | Paintings of nude standing females | Bathing women in art | Pre-Raphaelite paintings | 1901 paintings | John William Godward

Aestheticism English artistic movement of the late 19th century, dedicated to the doctrine of ‘art for art's sake’ – that is, art as a self-sufficient entity concerned solely with beauty and not with any moral or social purpose. It was a reaction to the Victorian sensibility, and dominated art and literature between 1868 and 1901. The artists of this movement believed that art was to be enjoyed for its own sake, rather than any moral message it might seem to contain. They emphasized aesthetic pleasure derived from the immediate experience of an art form, over any didactic value attached to it, or inadvertently extricated from it. The works of these aesthetes is characterized by sensuality and the profuse use of symbols and synaesthetic effects. The aim was to wholly engage the senses, and hold the beholder enthralled. Generally speaking, it represents the same tendencies that Symbolism or Decadence stood for in France, or Decadentismo stood for in Italy, and may be considered the...