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. Object Type: painting. Date: 1881. Place of creation: Switzerland, 19th century. Dimensions: Framed: 132.1 x 102.9 x 8.3 cm (52 x 40 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 111 x 82 cm (43 11/16 x 32 5/16 in.). Medium: oil on fabric. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Ruine by the sea (1881) - Arnold Böcklin (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.57)
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