Symbolism (movement)
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Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly
Death and the Grave Digger (La Mort et le Fossoyeur) (c. 1895) by Carlos Schwabe is a visual compendium of symbolist motifs. The angel of Death, pristine snow, and the dramatic poses of the characters all express symbolist longings for transfiguration "anywhere, out of the world".
The Corner of the Table by Henri Fantin-Latour (1872); left to right: Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Léon Valade, Ernest d'Hervilly, Camille Pelletan (seated); Pierre Elzéar, Emile Blémont, Jean Aicard (standing)
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (c. 1862), whose writing was a precursor of the symbolist style
Eugen Bracht, The Shore of Oblivion, 1889
Arnold Böcklin
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Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late Romantic composers.
Symbolism (movement)
…Swiss Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901) Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918…
Self-portrait (1873)
Roger Freeing Angelica, 1873
Grave of Arnold Böcklin, Cimitero degli Allori, Florence, Italy
Villa by the Sea