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| Frederik Marinus Kruseman - Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight, 1862 oil on canvas, 78 cm (30.7 in) x 64 cm (25.1 in) Rijksmuseum |
In the right foreground of this nocturnal scene a monk meditates near an overgrown ruin. This is the abbey in Villers-la-Ville near Brussels, the city where the painter lived for a while. The subject and the frame embellished with sheaves of wheat were inspired by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich’s famous Tetschen Altarpiece depicting a cross atop a mountain. via
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