“If you were to meditate morning to evening,” he once said ... both a tiny speck in the universe and the center of it all. “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” is at the ...

“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.

Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the Sea of ... the golden light of the life-giving morning sun, the soft melancholy of a warm day’s sunset, and the heavenly gloom of a dismal sky ...

It happened to Rembrandt, and it happened to Caspar David Friedrich. Towards the end of his career, Germany’s greatest ...

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. After a long day of hiking, you’ve finally reached the top of the mountain.