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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Moonrise over Europe: J.C. Dahl and the Romantic Movement Moonrise over Europe: J.C. Dahl and the Romantic Movement Dr Paul Spencer-Longhurst This book explores the career and significance of the Norwegian artist Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857) within the Romantic Movement. Dahl's close friend Caspar David Freidrich was a major influence on Dahl's work and the author looks carefully at the links between the two landscapists. A second theme is the Romantic fascination with moonlight and its associations in landscape painting, using works by such artists as Joseph Wright of Derby, Paul Sandby, C.-J. Vernet, Turner, Samuel Palmer, and Honoré Daumier. Published in association with The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, and accompanies an exhibition there opening in January 2006. 128 pages, 30 colour and 35 monochrome illustrations, softcover with flaps ISBN 0 85667 607 1 | Retail price £19.95  Online price: £14.00 / €21.00 Dahl was one of the nineteenth century’s foremost landscapists and a friend and contemporary of the great German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich (1777-1840), with whom he shared a house in Dresden for many years. Celebrating the recent acquisition of the painting - one of only two in public collections in England - this book locates it in relation to Dahl’s other pictures and those of his contemporaries. It also explores the fascination with moonlight that came to preoccupy Romantic artists in Europe during the period 1770-1860, including Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Wright of Derby, John Russell, Turner, Claude-Joseph Vernet and Daumier, all of whom are represented her The Author Dr Paul Spencer-Longhurst is Senior Curator at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.