Symbolist painting
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Symbolist painting was one of the main artistic manifestations of symbolism, a cultural movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century in France and developed in several European countries. The
Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895), by Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Art (Caress of the Sphinx) (1896), by Fernand Khnopff, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Young Girls by the Seaside (1879), by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Isle of the Dead (1880), by Arnold Böcklin, Kunstmuseum, Basel
Gustave Moreau
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Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in th
Symbolist painting
…such as the Rosicrucians. Stylistically there was great diversity within Symbolist painting, as is denoted by comparing the sumptuous exoticism of Gustave Moreau with the melancholic serenity of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Pictorial symbolism was related to other earlier and later movements: Pre-Raphaelitism is…
Self-portrait of Gustave Moreau, 1850
The Chimera (1867), oil on panel, 33 x 27.3 cm., Fogg Museum
Louis Moreau (c. 1850), oil on canvas, 45 x 31 cm., Musée Gustave Moreau
Pauline Moreau (no date), oil on canvas, Musée Gustave Moreau