Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 Size:24"x18" suggesting the painful separation of

suggesting the painful separation of self

"Democritus with a Skull

draped in a disheveled robe

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

Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 Size:24"x18" suggesting the painful separation ofThis 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,