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Altarpiece Tetschen is completed

1807 CE · Europe · Culture

Altarpiece Tetschen is completed
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Cross in the Mountains, also known as the Tetschen Altar, is an oil painting by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich designed as an altarpiece. Among Friedrich's first major works, the 1808 painting marked an important break with the conventions of landscape painting by including Christian iconography.

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