In all of art history, there have been few artists who truly understood how to capture a sense of the sublime quite like Caspar David Friedrich.
His most iconic masterpiece “Wanderer above the sea of Fog” has become such a beacon for Romanticism in general, it can almost seem bordering on cliché for our modern eyes.
But the truth is, Friedrich’s oeuvre …
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