Created for Luman Reed, a successful Coxsackie businessman, each of the five canvases that make up this group features the same hill or mountain, with a rock at its top and a sheer face, in the background.
Created for Luman Reed, a successful Coxsackie businessman, each of the five canvases that make up this group features the same hill or mountain, with a rock at its top and a sheer face, in the background. The Third scene borrows from Canaletto's paintings of the Grand Canal, while the artist said of the fourth scene, which features a large headless statue and lots of smoke, that, "Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city." Tracing the development of an unnamed nation from its savage and pastoral states, to its consummation, and subsequent destruction and desolation, this is, FTP, what 1830s series of paintings by Thomas Cole?
Created for Luman Reed, a successful Coxsackie businessman, each of the five canvases that make up this group features the same hill or mountain, with a rock at its top and a sheer face, in the background.
{The Course of Empire}