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    Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against nature’s power and glory

    Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against nature’s power and glory

    While field, meadow and trees seem to descend towards the viewer, that left-to-right diagonal is powerfully offset, in the painting’s upper half, by the sheer weight of the evening sky, a mass of lavender-tinged clouds parting to reveal horizontal bands of yellowish-orange produced by the setting sun, a fading glimpse of a world beyond.


    July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson

    July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson

    “Mabel was a free-spirited young girl, an adventurous and well-travelled woman; key to a glittering bohemian circle and one of the most significantly overlooked talents of early 20th-century British art,” according to the publisher.