"How does Friedrich persuade us, again and again, that we are at the very edge of the natural world, ready at last to immerse ourselves in something that, for want of a better word, must be called the supernatural – a domain of the mystical speculation about human life and afterlife that before the Romantics found a proper home in the church?"
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Quote by Robert Rosenblum, in The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the U.S.S.R. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990), p. 8
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