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{{short description|Painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel}}
{{Infobox artwork
| title = Medieval City on a River
| image = 1815 Schinkel Mittelalterliche Stadt an einem Fluss anagoria.JPG
| image_size = 300px
| other_title_1 = {{langx|de|Mittelalterliche Stadt am Fluss}}
| artist = [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]]
| year = 1815
| medium = oil on canvas
| height_metric = 90
| width_metric = 140
| museum = [[Alte Nationalgalerie]]
| city = [[Berlin]]
}}
'''''Medieval City on a River''''' is an 1815 oil on canvas painting by the Prussian architect and artist [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]], which is now in the collection of the [[Alte Nationalgalerie]], in [[Berlin]].<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&lang=en|title= Mittelalterliche Stadt an einem Fluß - Bild & Pendant|publisher=Staatliche Museen zu Berlin|accessdate=10 July 2020}} </ref>
Schinkel had trained as an architect but turned his hand to theater set design and painting during the time of Napoleonic domination. After [[Napoleon]]'s defeat in 1815 he was appointed the state architect of [[Prussia]] and was responsible for much of the redevelopment of [[Berlin]] city center.<ref> {{cite book|title=An Introduction to Ninetenth Century Art|first=Michelle|last=Facos|page=105}} </ref>
''Medieval City on a River'' depicts an imaginary German landscape in which the sunlit gothic cathedral, framed by the rainbow, is the dominating feature, to which a procession of people dressed in medieval costume are making their way. Schinkel appears to be confirming the fundamental status of the Church as a vital institution in a resurgent Prussia after the years of oppression.
==See also==
* [[100 Great Paintings]]
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