Aubrey Beardsley

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Aubrey Beardsley was a late 19th-century English illustrator and author renowned for his highly stylized, erotic black-and-white drawings that became iconic of the Art Nouveau and Decadent movements.

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Aubrey Beardsley canonical 20
Beardsley 3
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English artist
author
illustrator
person
artStyle black-and-white illustration
erotic art
burialPlace Menton Cemetery
causeOfDeath tuberculosis
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1872-08-21
dateOfDeath 1898-03-16
employer The Yellow Book
familyName Aubrey Beardsley self-linksurface differs
surface form: Beardsley
father Vincent Paul Beardsley
fullName Aubrey Beardsley self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
genre decadent literature
erotic literature
givenName Aubrey
influenced 20th-century graphic design
Art Nouveau illustration
influencedBy Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
surface form: Japanese woodblock prints

Pre-Raphaelite art
surface form: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
knownFor book illustration
erotic illustrations
highly stylized black-and-white drawings
languageOfWorkOrName English
mother Ellen Agnus Pitt
movement Art Nouveau
Decadentism
surface form: Decadent movement
nationality English
notableWork Illustrations for "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's "Salome"
The Savoy (illustrations)
The Yellow Book
surface form: The Yellow Book (illustrations)

Under the Hill
occupation author
editor
illustrator
periodActive 1890s
placeOfBirth Brighton
England
Sussex
placeOfDeath France
Menton
positionHeld art editor of The Yellow Book
residence London, England
surface form: London
sexualOrientation homosexual
sibling Mabel Beardsley
signatureWork Salome
surface form: "The Peacock Skirt" illustration for "Salome"

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Symbolism hasKeyFigure Aubrey Beardsley
Aestheticism notableProponent Aubrey Beardsley
James McNeill Whistler influenced Aubrey Beardsley
Edward Burne-Jones influenced Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley fullName Aubrey Beardsley self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley familyName Aubrey Beardsley self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Beardsley
The Rape of the Lock hasIllustrationsBy Aubrey Beardsley
The Yellow Book artEditor Aubrey Beardsley
The Yellow Book notableContributor Aubrey Beardsley
Victorian art hasNotableArtist Aubrey Beardsley
Beard hasVariant Aubrey Beardsley
this entity surface form: Beardsley
Westminster School of Art notableStudent Aubrey Beardsley
Menton Cemetery hasNotableBurial Aubrey Beardsley
The Savoy (illustrations) creator Aubrey Beardsley
The Savoy (illustrations) notableArtist Aubrey Beardsley
Under the Hill author Aubrey Beardsley
Mabel Beardsley sibling Aubrey Beardsley
Mabel Beardsley relative Aubrey Beardsley
Mabel Beardsley notableRelative Aubrey Beardsley
Vincent Paul Beardsley familyName Aubrey Beardsley
this entity surface form: Beardsley
Vincent Paul Beardsley child Aubrey Beardsley
Vincent Paul Beardsley notableRelative Aubrey Beardsley