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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: Moonrise by the Sea

🖼 Moonrise by the Sea, c. 1821
Oil on canvas
135 × 170 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Moonlit figures stand silhouetted on a rocky shore, gazing toward luminous water rendered in soft, atmospheric oils. Friedrich's Romantic masterpiece captures spiritual longing and humanity's insignificance before nature's sublime vastness.

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