Lunar light

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Evening Scene with Full Moon and Persons (1801) by Abraham Pether.

More moons. The thing you immediately notice when looking at paintings of the moon is how many of them show moonlight reflected on water, while the moon itself tends to change its size. There are many more examples here.

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Moonrise Over the Sea (c. 1821) by Caspar David Friedrich.

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View of Dresden by Moonlight (1839) by Johan Christian Dahl.

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Lunar observations

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Seashore by Moonlight (between 1660 and 1664) by Egbert van der Poel.

The moon in art. A wide-ranging theme so there’ll be more tomorrow.

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Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1820) by Caspar David Friedrich.

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Cornfield in Moonlight (c. 1830) by Samuel Palmer.

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