The Isle of the Dead 1880

Arnold Böcklin's haunting painting "The Isle of the Dead" (1880) depicts a solitary island shrouded in a somber twilight. Cypress trees stand tall against the dark sky, while a ghostly figure rows a boat towards a mysterious structure on the shore. The artwork is renowned for its unsettling atmosphere, symbolizing death and the passage to the afterlife. The painting, now housed at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland, is a powerful example of Symbolism, a late 19th-century art movement that explored the subconscious and subjective experiences.