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150: 112: 132: 22: 287: 173: 149: 111: 65:. A person is seen from behind in the foreground of the image, contemplating the view before them, and is a means by which the viewer can identify with the image's figure and then recreate the space to be conveyed. It is commonly associated with 162:(1830s): " emblematize the contemporary viewer's belatedness ... they belonged precisely to an earlier epoch, one before the advent of landscape; and thus their portrayal as Romantic 84:
motif dates to antiquity and has since been employed in many different eras and styles of art. Before Friedrich, such figures were not generally the subject of the work.
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actually invites identification or rather encourages second-order observation.
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represents less a continuity with Rome than a rift between present and past"
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Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
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Caspar David Friedrich
Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
painting
graphic art
photography
film
German Romantic
Caspar David Friedrich
Giotto
staffage
Giotto's Lamentation of Christ (1300s) fresco at the Cappella degli Scrovegni (Padova) has figures with their backs to the scene.
Cappella degli Scrovegni
Vermeer's The Art of Painting (1660s)
The Art of Painting
Carl Gustav Carus, Raphael and Michelangelo (1830s): " emblematize the contemporary viewer's belatedness ... they belonged precisely to an earlier epoch, one before the advent of landscape; and thus their portrayal as Romantic Rückenfiguren represents less a continuity with Rome than a rift between present and past"
Carl Gustav Carus
Early photograph by Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu
Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu
Koerner, Joseph Leo
Reaktion Books
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9781861897503
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978-3-7913-8357-6
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9783898967747
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art techniques
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