Meadows near Greifswald ☷ Friedrich ☷ Canvas horses The dense foreground gives way

The dense foreground gives way to a panoramic horizon

Onoe Baiko as a Female Ghost Rising from a Swamp (1838) by Utagawa Kunisada depicts the kabuki actor Onoe Baiko

Rembrandt is seated

Gray Weather (1907

Meadows near Greifswald ☷ Friedrich ☷ Canvas horses The dense foreground gives wayMeadows near Greifswald (1822, Wiesen bei Greifswald) by Caspar David Friedrich depicts horses in a meadow in front of the cityscape of Greifswald, Germany. The churches, windmills and houses of the city are wedged between a giant open sky and a large field of green, presenting the scale of nature to that of man made endeavors. The original location, mirroring the perspective of the painting, can still be visited on the outskirts of Greifswald where