When Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge on Feb. 23, 1778, one soldier likened him to "an ancient fabled God of War ... a perfect personification of Mars." Far from a ...

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An icon of Romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich resonates with audiences for his mystic landscapes that exalt nature, yet the painter’s legacy has been bumpy. Friedrich died in 1840 in Dresden, ...

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