... doesn’t understand where the novelty is.
The works of Puvis de Chavannes(1824–1898) are at the origins of symbolism.
The ancient stories (“Orpheus”) the artist turned to linked him with the writers — symbolists, ...
... see the dark side of this transformation: eternal power of Fate over people and gods and absence of freedom of choice. Orpheus killed by the bacchae and the death of Socrates added a drop of bitterness ...