City at Moonrise
The story
An imagined city stands silhouetted against the moonrise, built around the symmetry of the rising moon framed by twin church towers. Painted by Friedrich in 1817, it turns architecture into a kind of devotional emblem.
- Artist
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Year
- 1817
- Period
- Romantic
- Where it lives
- Museum Oskar Reinhart
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
