On of my favorite painters is Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic era artist famous for his mysterious landscape paintings.

From “Morning in the Giant Mountains” to “Cross in the Mountains” and “Monk by the Sea,” you can see that the artist was fascinated by unusual landscapes, fog, the vastness and barrenness of creation, and the mysteriousness of its Creator.

One of his most well-known paintings is this one, “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog”:

The painting shows a man presumably on a mountain-top surrounded by fog. From this perspective or vantage point, earth as we know it, seems far off and elusive. Yet the heavens still rise far above. He seems to be contemplating the vastness of the landscape. It’s a strange feeling looking at this painting, as though one has stepped into the mystery o…