Friedrich paints Narnia?

OK, not really. But seriously:

Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape, 1811
National Gallery London

Does that not look exactly like Narnia to you? The snow, the pine tree, the mist-shrouded castle looming in the background, the White Witch about to careen out of the fog in her carriage and offer our weary wanderer a piece of Turkish Delight? This happens to be what I could not stop imagining today in my 19th century art class instead of actually taking diligent notes on Friedrich’s mystically-religious landscapes.

And why, yes, this is about as unscholarly a post as you could ever hope to read.