It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German ...

“The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of many exhibitions dedicated to German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) on the 250th anniversary of his death.

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers ...

The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is commemorated in a ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (c. 1817) (photo by Elke Walford, courtesy the ...

Self-portrait, 1810. Found in the Collection of Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Artist Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840). Picture: Getty Images Easter morning,1833. Although his landscapes are ...

The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818, by Caspar David Friedrich In The Open Window (1921), Juan Gris uses black and dark colours to show parts of the room that are in shade. Light tones are ...

Image caption, The Polar Sea, Caspar David Friedrich, 1824, oil on canvas The Polar Sea by Caspar David Friedrich shows how diagonal lines can lead a viewer into an image. The shallow diagonal ...