This presentation gives an overview of mysticism and Satanism in Symbolist and Decadent painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also includes Charcot's photographs of "hysterical" patients.

1. Mysticism and Satanism

2. Meet Valery Briusov

3. Portrait by Mikhail Vrubel, 1905

4. Photograph c. 1900

5. Portrait of Stanislaw
Przybyszewski
Edvard Munch, 1895

6. Jean Martin Charcot
at the Salpêtrière Hospital

7. Charcot Demonstrating Hysteria
by Hypnosis, 1880s

8. Hysteria I

9. Hysteria II

10. Hysteria III

11. Hysteria IV

12. Jean Delville
(Belgian)

13. Satan’s Treasures, 1895

14. Arnold Böcklin
(Swiss)

15. Medusa, 1878

16. Vita Somnium Breve, 1888

17. The Isle of the Dead, 1880

18. The Sacred Wood, 1882

19. Ferdinand Keller
(German)

20. Böcklin’s Tomb, 1902

21. František Kupka
(Czech)

22. Lotus Soul, 1898

23. Meditation, 1899

24. Money, 1899

25. The Conqueror Worm, 1900

26. The Way of Silence, c. 1900

27. The Way of Silence, c. 1900

28. The Wave, 1902

29. Beginning of Life:
Waterlilies, 1903

30. Resistance, or The Black Idol,
1903

31. František Bílek
(Czech)

32. How Time Etches Our Wrinkles,
1902

33. Illustration

34. Armand Point
(French)

35. Advertisement for
The Rose-Croix Salon, 1896

36. Fernand Khnopff
(Belgian)

37. After Joséphin Péladan:
The Supreme Vice, 1885

38. Brutishness, 1885

39. An Angel, 1889
(With Emile Verhaeren)

40. I Lock My Door upon Myself,
1891

41. The Offering, 1891

42. Art, The Sphinx, or The Caresses,
1896

43. Woman of Mystery, 1909

44. Mikolajus iurlionisČ
(Lithuanian)

45. Capricorn: Fantasy, 1904

46. Morning: Fantasy, 1904

47. Tranquility, 1905

48. Friendship, 1907

49. The Offering, 1909

50. The Altar, 1909

51. Demon, 1909

52. Josef Váchal
(Czech)

53. Seance, 1907

54. Mystical Garden, 1908

55. The Cult of Ahriman, 1908

56. Agrippa Cornelius, 1913

57. Carlos Schwabe
(German/Swiss)

58. Pain, 1893

59. Léon Spilliaert
(Belgian)

60. Vertigo, Magic Staircase, 1908

61. Self-Portrait with Mirror, 1908

62. Franz von Stuck
(German)

63. Lucifer, 1890

64. Jan Toorop
(Dutch)

65. Fate, or “O Grave Where Is Thy
Victory?” 1892

66. Fatalism, 1893

67. The Three Brides, 1893

68. Elihu Vedder
(American)

69. Lair of the Sea Serpent, c. 1899

70. Mikhail Vrubel
(Russian)

71. Sappho, 1880s

72. Seated Demon, 1890

73. Head of the Demon, 1891

74. The Demon Carried Off, 1901

75. Konstantin Somov
(Russian)

76. Sorceress, 1915