Two contemplating the moon by Caspar David Friedrich

This picture with good reason can be called allegorical. Two people stand on a stony path and peer into the distance. Beside them – a large boulder and a spruce.

The moon is placed in the center of the composition and separates the “living” half of the picture with a boulder and a green spruce from the “dead” with a dead tree.

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