Much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I love Caspar David Friedrich's paintings ... and I can live without his pictures of ruined monasteries and cathedrals cast in ominous darkness.

Dozens of works will be on view for the next two months at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magnificent “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” exhibit.

Caspar David Friedrich’s ... So, let’s accept Friedrich’s invitation, step into the picture and orient ourselves. The upper half of his composition is dominated by sky, the lower half ...

But the artist who emerges from the Metropolitan Museum’s Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is a more nuanced and complex figure than his few famous pictures suggest. His early sketches ...

At the very bottom of the picture, as if lost, stands a tiny human being. And this is Caspar David ... family for over 200 years. Georg Friedrich Kersting, a notable German Romantic painter in his ...