page_title: Life's Vanquished
hierarchical_section_title: Life's Vanquished
caption_attribution_description: Português: Os Vencidos da Vida, em 1888. Da esquerda para a direita: sentados, Guerra Junqueiro, Conde de Sabugosa, Eça de Queirós, Conde de Arnoso; de pé, Marquês de Soveral, Ramalho Ortigão, Carlos Mayer, Conde de Ficalho; na escadaria, Carlos Lobo d'Ávila, e Oliveira Martins. English: The Vencidos da Vida group (Life's Losers), in 1888. Left to right: sitting, Guerra Junqueiro, the Count of Sabugosa, Eça de Queirós, the Count of Arnoso; standing, the Marquis of Soveral, Ramalho Ortigão, Carlos Mayer, the Count of Ficalho; on the stairs, Carlos Lobo d'Ávila, and Oliveira Martins.
context_page_description: Life's Vanquished is the name by which became known an informal group of intellectuals of great relevance to Portuguese cultural life in the last three decades of the 19th century. Among the Vanquished were some of the writers, politicians, and aristocrats that had strived to modernise the country in their youths during the Regeneration — and whose perceived failure had led them to channel their disenchantment into an elegant and ironic decadent dilettantism.
  In 1889, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, arguably one of the group's most notable members, explained the perverse name of the group:
context_section_description: Life's Vanquished (Portuguese: Vencidos da Vida) is the name by which became known an informal group of intellectuals of great relevance to Portuguese cultural life in the last three decades of the 19th century. Among the Vanquished were some of the writers, politicians, and aristocrats that had strived to modernise the country in their youths during the Regeneration — and whose perceived failure had led them to channel their disenchantment into an elegant and ironic decadent dilettantism.
  In 1889, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, arguably one of the group's most notable members, explained the perverse name of the group:
caption: Life's Vanquished, 1888. Left to right: sitting, Guerra Junqueiro, The Count of Sabugosa, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, The Count of Arnoso; standing, The Marquis of Soveral, Ramalho Ortigão, Carlos de Lima Mayer, The Count of Ficalho; on the stairs, Carlos Lobo de Ávila, and Oliveira Martins (António Cândido is missing)
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