Book Description
Returning from Paris and Rome with the new concept of "plein air" painting, Danish and German artists in the first half of the nineteenth century began to paint out-of-doors at home. This beautiful book focuses on the painters and paintings of this period and on their new sensitivity to the light and atmosphere of the north. The book presents 108 works by 23 artists, with special attention to Caspar David Friedrich.

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Returning from Paris and Rome with the new concept of "plein air" painting, Danish and German artists in the first half of the nineteenth century began to paint out-of-doors at home. This beautiful book focuses on the painters and paintings of this period and on their new sensitivity to the light and atmosphere of the north. The book presents 108 works by 23 artists, with special attention to Caspar David Friedrich.

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Art Journal