{"id":13656,"date":"2013-04-15T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2013-04-15T03:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:50:39","slug":"julius-klingers-sodom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/15\/julius-klingers-sodom\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Klinger&#8217;s Sodom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"klinger1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/klinger1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The more I look at the work of Austrian artist Julius Klinger (1876\u20131942), the more I like what I see. <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/search\/pins\/?q=julius+klinger\" target=\"_blank\">This Pinterest sample<\/a> shows his versatility, equally at home with detailed illustration, often with a Beardsley-like quality, as he was with more Modernist design. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Farce_of_Sodom,_or_The_Quintessence_of_Debauchery\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sodom<\/em><\/a> (1689) (aka <em>The Farce of Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery<\/em>) is the notorious Restoration drama attributed to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, which is here illustrated by Klinger for an edition privately published in Leipzig in 1909. The play is one of the most flagrantly outrageous works in the English language, with a cast of characters that includes Bolloxinion, the King of Sodom, Cuntigratia, his Queen, and so on; you can see parts of it performed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0375920\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Libertine<\/em><\/a> (2004) with Johnny Depp playing Rochester, and taking the role of Bolloxinion.<\/p>\n<p>Klinger produced 16 illustrations in all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/09\/julius-klingers-salome\/\">His picture of Salom\u00e9<\/a> gets linked to this series on a number of websites but I&#8217;ve seen other sites that list it as a separate piece. Since Salom\u00e9 isn&#8217;t mentioned anywhere in <em>Sodom<\/em> I&#8217;d also be inclined to keep them separate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"klinger2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/klinger2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"klinger3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/klinger3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"klinger4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/klinger4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/30\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-21\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #21<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/09\/julius-klingers-salome\/\">Julius Klinger\u2019s Salom\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I look at the work of Austrian artist Julius Klinger (1876\u20131942), the more I like what I see. This Pinterest sample shows his versatility, equally at home with detailed illustration, often with a Beardsley-like quality, as he was with more Modernist design. Sodom (1689) (aka The Farce of Sodom, or The Quintessence of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/15\/julius-klingers-sodom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Julius Klinger&#8217;s Sodom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,7,48,46],"tags":[7247,4456,1506,123],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-illustrators","category-theatre","tag-deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration","tag-johnny-depp","tag-julius-klinger","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}