L’iconografia femminile: il fascino unico della Bella Epoca fino agli anni folle tra poesia e pittura
The Feminine Iconography: The Unique Charm of the Beautiful Era up to the Crazy Years between Poetry and Painting

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to demonstrate the happy and at the same time restless climate that marked the decades preceding the outbreak of the First World War and that, starting from 1919, was called Belle Époque. All crossed by the tremors of a modernity that, in projecting expectations and dreams, could not help but escape the subtle omen of the imminent drama, finds its most emblematic reflection in the figure of the woman absolute protagonist of the art of the time. They are found in the paintings of the various Tissot, Manet, De Nittis, Whistler, in poetry as Baudelaire and Gautier, which have made unforgettable the elegant aristocratic ladies with their precious jewels, adorned with feathers and charming and fashionable hats that, in their refined clothes, exhibit an unusual dreamy and nervous flirtation, Often filled with anxiety, they affirm a new identity of women in the society of the time, emancipated from the stereotypes of decades of female iconography.

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