Advertisement for La Maison Moderne 1902
Poster 214 in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche
Illustration by Manuel Orazi for Oscar Wilde's 1891 play Salome

Emmanuel Joseph Raphaël Orazi, known as Manuel Orazi, was an art nouveau illustrator, poster artist, and jewelry designer, as well as a set creator for theater and film.

He was born probably in Rome in about 1860 and died in Paris in 1934.

Notable works

In 1895 he created the Calendrier Magique, an occult-themed calendar still noted for its graphic design.[1]

Limiting it to 777 copies, he collaborated with popular French author Austin de Croze, who wrote the text. [2]

Sympathetic to the French Decadent movement, as well as Symbolism and Aestheticism, he also illustrated novels such as Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs, Ma petite ville by Jean Lorrain[3] in 1898 and Les Fleurs du mal by Baudelaire.[4]

Orazi illustrated an early Art Deco French edition of the 1891 one-act play by Oscar Wilde, Salome.

He made jewelry designs that were displayed at Maison de l'Art Nouveau in 1896.[5] In 1899 he designed some of the first pieces of jewelry for the Maison Arnould. His jewelry designs were also sold at La Maison Moderne.[6] Orazi designed one of the best known posters for La Maison Moderne.

For her theater at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, Loie Fuller commissioned Orazi to create the poster, which was printed in three editions and three color schemes.[7]

In 1921 he designed the sets for the silent film L'Atlantide.

References

  1. ↑ "Part I: Manuel Orazi | GD 203".
  2. ↑ "Fantastic... Book Record". Fantastic.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  3. ↑ "Ma petite ville ; Le miracle de Bretagne ; Un voyage d'amour | Koninklijke Bibliotheek". www.kb.nl. National Library of the Netherlands. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  4. ↑ "Manuel Orazi - Biography". Rogallery.com. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  5. ↑ Mattia Moretti (2011-01-13). "Manuel Orazi (1860-1934)". Szecesszio.com. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  6. ↑ R. Aubry, Documents sur l'art industriel au vingtieme siecle: reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de La Maison moderne (Paris: Édition de La Maison moderne, 1901)
  7. ↑ Nelson., Current, Richard (1997). Loie Fuller : goddess of light. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-309-4. OCLC 797332876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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