Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 18th Century with towering flames engulfing the

with towering flames engulfing the city

which guides the viewer's eye through the composition

The scene is imagined with medieval armor and weaponry

the piece is filled with eerie characters and distorted perspectives

The background reveals a tumultuous landscape filled with additional figures and fantastic elements

Monastery Cemetry in Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | 1818 18th Century with towering flames engulfing theThis 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,