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Mal\u00e9ficia (1905). <\/em><\/p>\n Much of the jewellery and sculpture produced by Phillipe Wolfers demonstrates the tendency of Art Nouveau and decorative Symbolism to evolve from Decadence to full-blown Gothic. The sinister recurs in Wolfers’ creations whether in the form of baleful females such as Mal\u00e8ficia<\/em> and his Medusa pendant<\/a>, or in the shape of bats, insects and the ubiquitous fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> serpent. There’s more Wolfers on the web than there was a couple of years ago but still too little; I scanned Mal\u00e8ficia<\/em> from a book and swiped the bat Large dragonfly (1903\u201304).<\/em><\/p>\n Le Jour et la Nuit (1897). <\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Mal\u00e9ficia (1905). Much of the jewellery and sculpture produced by Phillipe Wolfers demonstrates the tendency of Art Nouveau and decorative Symbolism to evolve from Decadence to full-blown Gothic. The sinister recurs in Wolfers’ creations whether in the form of baleful females such as Mal\u00e8ficia and his Medusa pendant, or in the shape of bats, insects … Continue reading “The art of Philippe Wolfers, 1858\u20131929”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,2,4,57,41,45],"tags":[136,141,2349,2247],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-design","category-fashion","category-sculpture","category-symbolists","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-insects","tag-philippe-wolfers","tag-phillipe-wolfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-KA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","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=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}brooch<\/strike> belt buckle (also a book scan) from Beautiful Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"wolfers2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/medusa_wolfers.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Lalique\u2019s dragonflies<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lucien Gaillard<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Masks of Medusa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"