An Example of Romanticism

June 29th, 2009 § 1 Comment

by Matthew Raley

"Two Men Contemplating the Moon," Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1825-30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Two Men Contemplating the Moon," Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1825-30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Someone defined romanticism as the mixture of beauty and strangeness, a combination that I certainly love in this painting.

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