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The Isle of the Dead" is the most famous work by the Swiss Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, who painted five versions between 1880 and 1886. The painting depicts a desolate, rocky island dominated by towering cypress trees, traditional symbols of mourning and cemeteries. A small rowboat approaches a water gate, carrying a coffin and a standing figure shrouded in white, guided by an oarsman often interpreted as Charon, the ferryman of the underworld from Greek mythology.
Böcklin never offered a single explanation, describing it simply as "a dream picture" meant to evoke a profound stillness. The work is not a depiction of a real place but a composite fantasy inspired by locations like the English Cemetery in Florence, where his infant daughter was buried. The painting's powerful, melancholic, and mysterious atmosphere made it immensely popular, turning it into an iconic image of the fin de siècle period, embodying themes of death, mortality, and the soul's final journey.

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