the Romantic artists were entranced by the transcendent power that nature still held, even in the face of all of society’s advances. In many instances, this power was typified by the sea. Take, for ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Sme ...

Upon seeing the painting "The Monk by the Sea," Heinrich von Kleist, a contemporary of Friedrich's, wasn't thinking about peace of mind or romantic ecstasy. It reminded him more of an apocalypse ...

a Romantic like Friedrich could — in his immensely powerful “Monk by the Sea” of 1808-10 — dress a universal unknown in a cleric’s robe. This second-most-famous painting of his places a ...

Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and ...

analyzing a period from the very first pre-Romantic expressions to the Unification of Italy and the success of Realism. At Fondazione Carriero, the protagonist is conceptual art in the show ...

He made the world romantic (as the German poet and ... He tried to trigger the sublime most famously in “Monk by the Sea,” a large-scale painting, still startling in its radical emptiness ...