Gustave Moreau

Moreau conjures jewelled, mystical scenes from myth and legend, dense with ornament and shimmering detail. Look for exotic richness, dreamlike symbolism, and glittering, encrusted surfaces.

Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) was a painter from France, associated with Symbolism.

A late-19th-century movement of dreams, myth, and inner emotion expressed through suggestive, evocative imagery. Symbolism →

More Symbolism painters: Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Harald Sohlberg, Ferdinand Hodler.

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