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Death playing the violin/fiddle in art:
. Frans Francken II,'Death Playing the Violin'
. 'Death the Strangler - The 1st Outbreak of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris 1831'
. Arnold Böcklin, 'Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle'
. Stevan Aleksic, 'Self-portrait with Death'

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2022-08-09

Böcklin, Arnold. 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙-𝑜'-𝑡ℎ𝑒-𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑝. 1882. Oil on canvas. 81 x 59 cm.

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2022-03-12



Esa lacra, que siempre afecta a los más vulnerables

Francisco de Goya, Escena de guerra .
Arnold Böcklin, La guerra.
Otto Dix, La guerra.

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2022-03-02

An urban legend for The Goatman 🐐 - essentially a faun-like being is said to live in some Maryland woods in America and be responsible for disappearing dogs…
🖼 Faun whistling to a blackbird, Arnold Böcklin, c.1864.

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2022-01-29

Franz Von Stuck (1863–1928)
𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟 1890–1891
𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦 1890
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑛 1893
𝑃𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑎̀ 1891

Inspired by Arnold Böcklin, these are dark paintings of the dark side of humanity, and have a dark legacy to match.

https://t.co/O6lvISpvWm
https://t.co/JdPkYN6lzN

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2022-01-18

Originating in ancient English folklore and later all over Europe & North America, a 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' is a ghost-like light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.

Art from:
Hermann Hendrich, 1823.
Arnold Böcklin, 1882.

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2021-10-24

Isle of the Dead – Arnold Böcklin, 1886.
(Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig).

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2021-07-25

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His early style was influenced by Arnold Böcklin, classically trained rule breaker.

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2021-06-14

Solo ho amica la notte.
Sempre potrò trascorrere con essa
d’attimo in attimo, non ore vane;
ma tempo cui il mio palpito trasmetto
come m’aggrada, senza mai distrarmene.
(Giuseppe Ungaretti)


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🎨 Arnold Böcklin, 1880

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2021-05-03

Celebrating w/#FairyTaleTuesday
with some
🌷"Springtime" by Pierre Auguste Cot, 1873
🌷"Flora Scattering Flowers" by Arnold Böcklin,1875

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2021-03-23

The Spring of Love by Arnold Böcklin, 1868

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2021-02-12

Originating in Olde English folklore and later all over Europe & north America, a 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' is an atmospheric ghost-like light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.

Art from:
Hermann Hendrich, 1823.
Arnold Böcklin, 1882.

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2020-10-22

'Isle of the Dead: Third version', Arnold Böcklin, 1883.

'The True Painting of the Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin at the Hour of the Angelus', Salvador Dali, 1932.

'Hommage à Böcklin', H. R. Giger, 1977.

'Avernus Transvisioned as Böcklin’s Isle', James Gleeson, 1989.

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2020-10-04

Arnold Böcklin, "Isle of the Dead" (1st version), 1880
H. R. Giger, "Hommage à Böcklin", 1977

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2020-08-23

Arnold Böcklin, 1883; H.R. Giger, 1977; Ridley Scott, 2017

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2020-03-05