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Framedl 2026-07-19 1/6* Böcklin painted 'Isle of the Dead' five times and never explained it. It included cypresses, rock walls, and a shrouded figure rowed toward an islet that admits no one back. Asked what it meant, he said only that it was a picture to dream over. Marvelous in the old sense: wonder with dread inside it.

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