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Also Known As Modernismo • Modernista • Sezessionstil • Stile Liberty • Stile Floreale
Date c. 1890 - c. 1910
Related Artists Louis Sullivan • Antoni Gaudí • Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov • Louis Comfort Tiffany • Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova • Émile Gallé • Max Beckmann • Yelena Genrikhovna Guro • Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov • Walter Crane • Charles Rennie Mackintosh • Aubrey Beardsley • René Lalique • Victor, Baron Horta • Carlos Drummond de Andrade • Alphonse Mucha • Charles Francis Annesley Voysey • Louis Majorelle • Henry van de Velde • Alceu Amoroso Lima • Mário de Andrade • Howard Pyle • Jorge de Lima • Josef Hoffmann • Joseph Olbrich • Murilo Mendes • Hector Guimard • Rui Ribeiro Couto • Otto Wagner • Norman Lindsay • Jan Thorn-Prikker

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staircase in the Hôtel Tassel
Aubrey Beardsley: illustration for Le Morte Darthur
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: painted oak cabinet with colored glass
Alphonse Mucha: Zodiac
Georges Fouquet: Art Nouveau jewelry
Antoni Gaudí: Casa Milá
Casa Milá, Barcelona, by Antoni Gaudí, 1905–10.
Art Nouveau initial
Tiffany lamp
The Studio Elvira, 1897-98, Munich, by August Endell; an example of Art Nouveau ornament.
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