How many different ways can you measure the passage of time?

Featured object: Caspar David Friedrich, Castle Ruins at Teplitz, 1828

Speakers:

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, assistant curator of Drawings and Prints and co-curator of the exhibition

Alison Hokanson, curator of European Paintings and co-curator of the exhibition

Alua Arthur, death doula

Marie Howe, poet

To learn more about Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, please visit ⁠⁠⁠met.org/friedrich⁠⁠⁠.

This audio guide is sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Music: Schubert, Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Arr. for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano): No. 1, Gute Nacht, performed by Bence Bogányi, Gergely Bogányi. Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.

Cover image: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). ⁠⁠Wanderer above the Sea of Fog⁠⁠, ca. 1817. Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 29 1/2 in. (94.8 x 74.8 cm). Hamburger Kunsthalle; Permanent loan from the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, acquired 1970 (HK–5161)