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New! Winter Landscape with Cathedral – Casper David Friedrich – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality
New! Winter Landscape with Cathedral – Casper David Friedrich – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality
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Even more than beauty, the main project of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) was representations of the sublime. Although beauty is part of the sublime, the main quality of it is the awesome. Things that are sublime are large and somewhat intimidating. They make the soul feel its place in the cosmos: small and vulnerable. The experience of the sublime is the experience of what is lofty and grand, of what is exalted.
Obviously, religion is connected to the idea of the sublime. Usually Friedrich creates the effect by painting huge mountain scenes or other panoramic landscapes, but he sometimes stirs in themes of the Catholic Church to help get that kind of sublime beauty. For example, in one we like a lot, he has a huge, dark, roiling sea with a small monk standing on the shore.
In this beautiful one, he has a grand Gothic cathedral the background, an echo of the shape of the evergreen trees in the foreground. Evergreen trees are symbols of eternal life, as they keep their green life in winter. So, there are two symbols of eternal life here, church and tree, in an awesome and somewhat intimidating winter landscape.
Even more explicitly, Friedrich has put in a crucifix in with the evergreens, a woodland shrine, and, if you look closely, you’ll see there are two abandoned crutches lying on the snow by the crucifix, and the man who abandoned them leans against a rock and prays at the crucifix. The Romantics loved to take their spirituality outdoors, and here Friedrich is giving us a little frisson of beauty, an experience of the spiritually sublime. Winter is a kind of death, but life and the Lord triumph, and “the soul feels it worth.” Oil on canvas. 1811. 33x45 cm.
** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a white border of about 0.5" inch for 5x7", 1.3" for 8.5x11", 1.6" for 11x14" pictures, or 1.75" for 13x17" , 16x20", 18x24" and 24x36". Inquire about special printing needs. Not much needs to be trimmed of the art to go to the edge on this print.
Border sizes are Approx! Fine art printers do this because the images are almost never the same rectangular ratio of the standard paper sizes. It also gives the prints a finished look, and lets them look good in a frame without a matt.
– Acid-free paper
– Archival pigments, rated to last for generations.
– Cardboard backer
– Above story of the art
– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal clear bag.
Thanks for your interest!
Sue & John
You might also enjoy original Catholic Art and Jewerly by me, Sue Kouma Johnson, here on Etsy at www.Etsy.com/shop/TreeOfHeaven
Also, check out our Catholic Quote shop, where we are pairing authentic quotes from Saints with Art: www.Etsy.com/shop/CatholicQuote
“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.” ~ St. Pope John Paul II
Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic.
Obviously, religion is connected to the idea of the sublime. Usually Friedrich creates the effect by painting huge mountain scenes or other panoramic landscapes, but he sometimes stirs in themes of the Catholic Church to help get that kind of sublime beauty. For example, in one we like a lot, he has a huge, dark, roiling sea with a small monk standing on the shore.
In this beautiful one, he has a grand Gothic cathedral the background, an echo of the shape of the evergreen trees in the foreground. Evergreen trees are symbols of eternal life, as they keep their green life in winter. So, there are two symbols of eternal life here, church and tree, in an awesome and somewhat intimidating winter landscape.
Even more explicitly, Friedrich has put in a crucifix in with the evergreens, a woodland shrine, and, if you look closely, you’ll see there are two abandoned crutches lying on the snow by the crucifix, and the man who abandoned them leans against a rock and prays at the crucifix. The Romantics loved to take their spirituality outdoors, and here Friedrich is giving us a little frisson of beauty, an experience of the spiritually sublime. Winter is a kind of death, but life and the Lord triumph, and “the soul feels it worth.” Oil on canvas. 1811. 33x45 cm.
** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a white border of about 0.5" inch for 5x7", 1.3" for 8.5x11", 1.6" for 11x14" pictures, or 1.75" for 13x17" , 16x20", 18x24" and 24x36". Inquire about special printing needs. Not much needs to be trimmed of the art to go to the edge on this print.
Border sizes are Approx! Fine art printers do this because the images are almost never the same rectangular ratio of the standard paper sizes. It also gives the prints a finished look, and lets them look good in a frame without a matt.
– Acid-free paper
– Archival pigments, rated to last for generations.
– Cardboard backer
– Above story of the art
– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal clear bag.
Thanks for your interest!
Sue & John
You might also enjoy original Catholic Art and Jewerly by me, Sue Kouma Johnson, here on Etsy at www.Etsy.com/shop/TreeOfHeaven
Also, check out our Catholic Quote shop, where we are pairing authentic quotes from Saints with Art: www.Etsy.com/shop/CatholicQuote
“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.” ~ St. Pope John Paul II
Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic.
