A 100-foot-long, double-masted sailing ship sank in the tidal canal of Alameda Harbor Sunday evening.

Books & the Arts / The German artist’s landscape paintings tried to capture the sublimity of a world that has vanished. Quinn ...

"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11.

“Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (c. 1825-30), by Caspar David Friedrich (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) I went to the Met to take in the landscapes. I didn’t expect to find an old friend.

Caspar David Friedrich is among those great painters the appreciation of whom has ironically suffered through the overexposure of a handful of paintings that has led to a general neglect of a ...

Dozens of works will be on view for the next two months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magnificent “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” exhibit.

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Moonrise by the Sea” (1822) is one of those paintings that stay with you your whole life.

The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching down on either side of that surprisingly narrow divide.

“Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” a major retrospective of the German romantic at the Met, speaks of a world out of joint.

Left: Georg Friedrich Kersting, Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio, 1811, oil on canvas. (Public domain/via Wikimedia) Right: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817, oil ...

Jerry Saltz reviews the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Caspar David Friedrich retrospective, which captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy.