Isle of the Dead, from 1883
by Arnold Bocklin
Title
Isle of the Dead, from 1883
Artist
Arnold Bocklin
Medium
Painting - Oil Painting
Description
Arnold Bocklin - Isle of the Dead - 1883
Arnold Bocklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.
Influenced by Romanticism his painting is symbolist with mythological subjects often overlapping with the Pre-Raphaelites. His pictures portray mythological, fantastical figures along classical architecture constructions (often revealing an obsession with death) creating a strange, fantasy world.
Bocklin is best known for his five versions of the Isle of the Dead, which partly evokes the English Cemetery, Florence, close to his studio and where his baby daughter Maria had been buried. An early version of the painting was commissioned by a Madame Berna, a widow who wanted a painting with a dream-like atmosphere.
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