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The dark, ruined villa in this painting is made especially mysterious by the strange cypress trees tossed by the wind.  A nervous green light flickers through the scene.  Influenced by German Romantic art of the early 1800s, Böcklin was preoccupied with dreamlike images suggestive of death.</div>
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Arnold Böcklin</div>
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