Inundated Ruins of a Monastery

Title: Inundated Ruins of a Monastery
Rights: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain
Creator: Blechen, Karl (1798-1840)
Date: 1824 C.E.
Description: Victory of nature over man. The monastery in the drawing is flooded with water trees are growing where it is flooded. A cross that has been surrounded by the water is near. Different types of vegetation growing in the water and up the walls of the monastery. Nature is taking its land back from man.
Format: Drawing. Pen and black ink, watercolor washes, sgraffito. 10 ¼ x 13 ⅛ in.
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contributor: Alexis Nelson
Identifier: 2008.109
Subject: Trees; cross; monastery; medieval; nature; water; ruins; romanticism.
Source: Jpg File. Unknown Photographer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 11/3/21. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/382544?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&showOnly=openAccess&ft=romanticism&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=50