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John Lewis Gaddis described Caspar David Friedrich's painting as leaving a contradictory impression, "suggesting at once mastery over a landscape and the insignificance of the individual within it. We see no face, so it's impossible to know whether the prospect facing the young man is exhilarating, or terrifying, or both."
[John Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Oxford University Press (2002).]
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