National Gallery of Denmark

I’m currently writing some of the final chapters of my latest travel book. I recently revisited my notes about visiting the National Gallery of Denmark. I really like the paragraph I wrote about it:

We concluded our museum day at the National Gallery of Denmark, which featured artwork from the 14th century to the present. The pieces we encountered often depicted windswept moors and expansive landscapes bathed in the light of a low-hanging sun. Overall, they conveyed a sense of coldness, dampness, and isolation, with many paintings being among the loneliest we had ever seen. The images of sparse interiors and quiet spaces fostered meditative atmospheres, while an overwhelming silence evoked feelings of existential isolation, reflecting certain Danish sensibilities. We left with the impression that we had walked through the inner world of every Danish mind.

Frans de Momper, Winter Landscape, ca. 1650

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