Isle of the Dead by Arnold Brocklin, 1880

This is a reproduction of Arnold Brocklin’s masterpiece “Isle of the Dead” of 1880.  It resides in the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland.  Brocklin was a Swiss Symbolist artist who died in 1901 at the age of 74 years.   He was a leading light of his age and this image is typical of his treatment of mythological scenes.  This particular work was inspired by the English cemetery in Florence, Italy.

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