A selection of over one hundred masterpieces offer an overview of the Symbolist movement which spread all over Europe during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The exhibition includes work by British artists (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), French, Belgian (Fernand Khnopff) and many other artists from all over Europe. Arranged in both a chronological and thematic order, the paintings, sculptures and drawings witness to the different subjects that recur in the rich Symbolist production: life and death, the fleetingness of time, dream and meditation, mystery and myth. The exhibition opens with the works of the forerunners - Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Böcklin and Rossetti, continues with the great Symbolist season, that of Gaugin, Redon and the "Generation 1886" and ends with the protagonists of the secessions: Klimt, Munch, Hodler and Mondrian who take the poetics of Symbolism to the beginning of the 20th century.

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