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3 unusual facts about Jean Delville


Gail Potocki

Influenced by 19th-century artists like Fernand Khnopff, Jean Delville, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Potocki's first monograph, The Union of Hope and Sadness: The Art of Gail Potocki was released in the Summer of 2006 and features text by Thomas Negovan, Richard Metzger and Jim Rose of the Jim Rose Circus.

Jean Delville

Swedish Thrash Metal band Hexenhaus used this painting for the cover of their album A Tribute to Insanity (1988), while American death metal group Morbid Angel used this painting also for the cover of their second album, Blessed Are the Sick (1991).

One of the most mysterious is his Portrait of Mrs. Stuart Merrill.


Salon de la Rose + Croix

Among the most influential works included at the Salon were the "Gothic fantasies" of painter Arnold Böcklin, the music of Erik Satie, painters Fernand Khnopff, Ferdinand Hodler, Jan Toorop, Gaetano Previati, Jean Delville, Carlos Schwabe, and Charles Filiger.


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