The Cross in the Mountains

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The Cross in the Mountains

painting by Caspar David Friedrich

Also known as: “Tetschen Altarpiece”

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Caspar David Friedrich
Friedrich’s oil painting, The Cross in the Mountains (1807–08; also called the Tetschen Altarpiece), established his mature style, characterized by an overwhelming sense of stillness and isolation, and was an attempt to replace the traditional symbology of religious painting with one drawn from nature. This is seen in…
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Friedrich’s oil painting, The Cross in the Mountains (1807–08; also called the Tetschen Altarpiece), established his mature style, characterized by an overwhelming sense of stillness and isolation, and was an attempt to replace the traditional symbology of religious painting with one drawn from nature. This is seen in…
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landscape painting
The Romantic landscape and the first half of the 19th century
Friedrich’s The Cross in the Mountains (c. 1808)—a painting of a crucifix illuminated by the sun’s rays at the summit of mountain—expresses a spiritual sentiment by way of the natural elements. French artists Jean-François Millet, Charles-François Daubigny, Théodore Rousseau, and others were part of the Barbizon…
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Friedrich’s The Cross in the Mountains (c. 1808)—a painting of a crucifix illuminated by the sun’s rays at the summit of mountain—expresses a spiritual sentiment by way of the natural elements. French artists Jean-François Millet, Charles-François Daubigny, Théodore Rousseau, and others were part of the Barbizon…
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