 He specialized in portraits of women, either portraying them as idealized figures, taken from the style of the Pre-Raphaelites, as in the illustration for the cover of "L'Hermitage", or as seducers, as in his poster for the Folies Bergere, depicting the dancer and courtesan Liane de Pougy luring men into a spider's web.Manuel Orazi (1860-–1934) was born in Rome, but came to work in Paris in 1892 as an illustrator for novels and magazines, In 1895 he made a series of symbolist illustrations, called "The Magic Calendar".His best known Art Nouveau work is the poster for "La Maison Moderne", a shop of Art Nouveau interior design which competed with that of Samuel Bing, which combined a dozen aspects of Art Nouveau into a single illustration.