Joseph Koerner's book Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape offers a useful summary of Romanticism. Its artists tended to have:
- a heightened sensitivity to the natural world
- a belief in nature's correspondence to the mind
- a focus on the subjective
- a passion for the equivocal, the indeterminate and the obscure
- a desire to be lost in nature's infinity
- an infatuation with death
- a preference for night over day
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