************************Isle of the Dead (German: Die Toteninsel) is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Prints of the work were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century—Vladimir Nabokov observed in his novel Despair that they were to be "found in every Berlin home".[1]
Böcklin produced several different versions of the mysterious painting between 1880 and 1886.
That’s pretty cool. I wonder if it was the painting or the name of it that made everybody want one? Isle of the Dead sounds so mysterious. People were really fascinated with the mysteries of the world in the 1800s. In a more romanticized way than they are now at any rate.