Isle of the Dead
This project was sponsored by The Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation. Collaborators included artist Julião Sarmento and digital artist Helder Luis.
The Isle of the Dead is a painting by Arnold Boecklin, property of the Kunstmuseum in Basel (Switzerland).
This painting inspired Sergei Rachmaninoff to compose his symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead.
The painting is a beautiful symbolic painting of the 19th century with a most exquisite image of a small island in colours or ochre stone and dark green trees, a beautiful dark blue sea and a small boat with the death personified as a woman - standing, her back to us and moving towards the island.
The painting is movement and music in itself.
