Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pornocrates" in English language version.
The reference to Antiquity is obvious, first in the title which evokes post-Alexandrian Greece and its prostitutes, then in the composition which makes this woman a timeless goddess who passes by, indifferent to the despair of "ancient loves". Music, Poetry, Painting, the academic arts, lament, frozen in stone while an all-powerful and sardonic modern woman triumphs. The trinkets with which she is adorned emphasize her nudity and make her even more perverse. In its conquering march, it is the pig that sets the pace. In the work of Rops and that of many of his contemporaries, this animal has a strong diabolical and erotic charge. He is a "creature of the devil" because he stubbornly keeps his eyes riveted on the ground, never looking at the sky and he is the "sex beast" because, according to tradition, he is the only one of his kind to copulate for pleasure and not just for reproduction.
The reference to Antiquity is obvious, first in the title which evokes post-Alexandrian Greece and its prostitutes, then in the composition which makes this woman a timeless goddess who passes by, indifferent to the despair of "ancient loves". Music, Poetry, Painting, the academic arts, lament, frozen in stone while an all-powerful and sardonic modern woman triumphs. The trinkets with which she is adorned emphasize her nudity and make her even more perverse. In its conquering march, it is the pig that sets the pace. In the work of Rops and that of many of his contemporaries, this animal has a strong diabolical and erotic charge. He is a "creature of the devil" because he stubbornly keeps his eyes riveted on the ground, never looking at the sky and he is the "sex beast" because, according to tradition, he is the only one of his kind to copulate for pleasure and not just for reproduction.
