The Soul of the Venetian Horizon: The Life and Art of Friedrich Nerly Friedrich Nerly, a master of the German Romantic tradition, possessed an extraordinary ability to translate the ephemeral light of the Mediterranean into enduring oil on canvas. Born in 1808 in Erfurt, Germany, Nerly’s artistic journey was deeply rooted in a lineage of landscape mastery. His earliest instruction came from his father, a respected painter who instille…