Bonfire Celebrating Midsummer Night | Nikolai Astrup | 1926 17th Century The chiaroscuro technique is employed

The chiaroscuro technique is employed here

guides mankind toward divine wisdom and celestial rewards

with an almost unsettling allure

rendered in deep

Bonfire Celebrating Midsummer Night | Nikolai Astrup | 1926 17th Century The chiaroscuro technique is employedMidsummer Night is an oil on paper painting by the Norwegian artist Nikolai Astrup. It shows the traditional bonfire for Saint John's Eve sometimes referred to as Midsummer Night in a valley at Jlster in Norway, the artist's hometown, to which he had returned in 1902. It was begun in 1912 and completed in 1926. It has been in the National Gallery of Norway since 1984. Nikolai Astrup (1880 1928) was a Norwegian painter. Astrup was a distinctive,