Behind "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature" is the tale of German Romanticism in the Age of Napoleon. If you were ...

Nature was “made available,” if you like ... The phrase “with one’s whole heart” is the giveaway here: The heart desires. Romanticism is about yearning. In states of yearning ...

to saturate oneself with it and absorb it and give it back again in the form of nature.” The phrase “with one’s whole heart” is the giveaway here: The heart desires. Romanticism is about ...