Hello everyone, I’m starting a thread I’m calling “The Moon in Art during the Long 19th Century”. And this is it. 😄🌕🌖🌗 Here you shall find evocations of “the moon, a lily white, / Blossoms within her hand” (Rainer Maria Rilke). If you’re interested, please do follow along! To begin with, here’s Caspar David Friedrich’s _Two Men Contemplating the Moon_ (1819, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden). Art Threads 🧵