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Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 accompanied the first-ever museum presentation examining the Salon de la Rose Croix, a series of annual exhibitions established by eccentric French author, critic, occultist and Rosicrucian Josphin Pladan. The Rose Croix convened an international group of Symbolist artists around a shared refutation of Realist aesthetics and philosophy, frequently in favor of the ideal and the mystical. Among the participants were Pierre Amde Marcel-Bronneau, Jean Delville, Fernand Khnopff, Charles Maurin, Armand Point, Alexandre Son and Flix Vallotton.Bound in red velvet with gold-stamped lettering to conjure the evocative atmosphere of the Salons, the catalog features essays about the history, themes and often spiritual aims of the Rose Croix (Vivien Greene) , its reception by the press and the public in the 1890s (Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond) and the importance of spiritualism to early 20th-century abstraction (Kenneth E.



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