Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 Size:24"x18" Andromeda's sinuous body is contrasted

Andromeda's sinuous body is contrasted against the dark masses of the monster's irregular and jagged body

suggesting the painful separation of self

making the artwork both visually intriguing and intellectually stimulating

solemn light

Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 Size:24"x18" Andromeda's sinuous body is contrastedThis work is a later copy after an original painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the original having been destroyed during the Second World War. The painting depicts a heavy winter sky, the snow covered cemetery lies in deep silence, broken only by the slow movement of a small church processional toward the ruined monastery. The Gothic arches rise like a hollowed skeleton, framed by bare, twisted trees that press in from the darkness. At the entrance,