Art History 3 Things You Should Know About ‘Island of the Dead,’ a Once Wildly Famous Now Obscure Painting Full of Mystery. Created by Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, the haunting work still ...

Culture Art Great Works. Great Works: The Isle of the Dead (1880), Arnold Böcklin Kunstmuseum, Basel. Tom Lubbock. Friday 15 January 2010 01:00 GMT. Comments.

This course examines the development of art in Germany from the spiritualism of Romanticism (Caspar David Friedrich and the Nazarenes) to explorations of sexuality, Darwinian theory, and the ...

“Animated cinema is the demiurgic art par excellence: matter comes to life and is transformed in the hands and imaginations of the creators. They, more than anybody, know about the secret life ...