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

“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.

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 ...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is probably the most notable of the 19th century German Romantic artists (even if you’re ...

The eighty-seven-year-old French director, in town for a rerelease of “A Man and a Woman,” his swinging-sixties “make-out ...

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But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marvelling at what had happened. After journeying through the fourteen Stations of ...

Kent Monkman talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and ...

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The younger generations’ appetite for everything vintage bodes well for the future, says Huon Mallalieu, at a time when an extraordinary Old Masters collection is about to go under the hammer.