Villa By The Sea by Arnold Bocklin, Symbolism Art Magnet

Villa By The Sea (1878) by Arnold Bocklin is a vintage Victorian Era Symbolism fine art mythology macabre painting. A ghost figure, a goth or ghostly woman, is standing near a villa on an island with cypress trees by the ocean with waves coming to shore on the beach. About the artist: Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) was a painter specializing in Symbolism and influenced by Romanticism overlapping with the Pre-Raphaelites. They often portray mythological, fantasy figures along classical architecture constructions (revealing often an obsession with death) and creating a strange, fantasy world.