The Sacred Wood by Arnold Bocklin, Vintage Art

The Sacred Wood (1882) by Arnold Bocklin is a vintage Victorian Era Symbolism fine art mythology macabre painting. Several ghost like people kneeling before a monument in the forest while more ghostly figures are walking along a path next to the trees. The monument has an eternal flaming burning on top. About the artist: Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) was a painter specialising in Symbolism and influenced by Romanticism overlapping with the Pre-Raphaelites. They often portray mythological, fantasy figures along classical architecture constructions (revealing often an obsession with death) and creating a strange, fantasy world.