The end of winter in New York sometimes feels rife with melancholy. A few spring days taunt with the warmth and new life to ...

It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German ...

“The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of many exhibitions dedicated to German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) on the 250th anniversary of his death.

The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is commemorated in a ...

His art helped inform the dreamy imagery of Disney’s Fantasia, and Samuel Beckett said Friedrich’s moody Two Men Contemplating the Moon inspired Waiting for Godot. The influence of the 1817 ...