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

You know the work of Caspar David ... of Friedrich’s work is housed in Europe, so this is a rare opportunity to assess him in full. His pictures of graveyards, seashores, shipwrecks, and ...

Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of ... Mist in the Mountains” (1807–8), the arresting simplicity of “Mountain Landscape in Bohemia” (c. 1830), and the fair waters in ...

“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.

Artist Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840 ... or a solitary cross rises in front of a mountain. He reminds us of what we have lost or are about to lose. We enter imaginatively into his paintings ...