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Caspar David Friedrich, Canaletto, and Edvard Munch

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Abstract

Caspar David Friedrich, one of Germany’s greatest painters from the nineteenth-century Romantic era, is famed for his spectacular twilight scenes. An important series of three similar works began with Two Men Contemplating the Moon (Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden). He altered the foreground figures for the canvas Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin), and then he reintroduced the two male figures for a third version titled Two Men Contemplating the Moon (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). In all three paintings a bright “star” appears close to a thin crescent Moon in a twilight sky.

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Olson, D.W. (2018). Caspar David Friedrich, Canaletto, and Edvard Munch. In: Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70320-6_3

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