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Solar Eclipse
In many ways, Bengt Nordenberg’s painting lives up to the expectations on Romantic artists, with Caspar David Friedrich as the typical example – with the averted figures and the spectacular lighting. However, while Friedrich set his scenes in anonymous places in a timeless ideal world, Nordenberg’s painting relates to a specific event. On 28 July, 1851, a solar eclipse took place that could be see…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1851
- 1851
Provenance
- Purchase 2010 funded by Axel Hirschs Fund
Identifier
- NM 7062
- 132608
Extent
- Mått 35,5 x 46 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Year
- 1851
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:08:01.337Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:25:34.239Z