Our critics pick 11 outstanding exhibitions — many still on view this summer —and tour the renewed Frick Collection and the ...

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Though Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog may be a familiar image, the painting has never found its way over the Atlantic until now.

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. After a long day of hiking, you’ve finally reached the top of the mountain.

Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (1808-1810). Photo: Andres Kilger. Courtesy of ...

In The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time (Polity, $25/£20, 220 pages), the art historian Florian Illies sets out to capture this shifting picture.

The rapturously beautiful Met show provides an opportunity to test this assertion. Quietly, in murmuring evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of joint.

An unmissable show at the Met proves romanticism isn’t dead Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of ...

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers ...

Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase.

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (circa 1817) is among the world’s most recognizable — please, let’s rest the tired word “iconic” — paintings. If the artist’s name or the title ...