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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David: The Cemetery Entrance

🖼 The Cemetery Entrance, 1825
Oil on canvas
143 × 110 cm
Berlin, Germany

Shadowed figures pass through Gothic gates into a misty graveyard, rendered in Friedrich's characteristic atmospheric technique with soft, melancholic light. The entrance symbolizes the threshold between life and death, exemplifying Romantic obsession with mortality and the sublime power of nature over human existence.

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E. H. Gombrich
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