This artist's interest in Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos inspired another landscape depicting two men in front of a cross, a waterfall, and Mount Chimborazo.
A painting by this artist premiered at an exhibition at which more than twelve thousand people were provided with opera glasses to view it in a darkened room. The sitting room of this artist's mansion Olana is decorated with a painting of his that depicts ruins through the narrow Siq, El Khasne Petra, which was done on a trip which also produced a painting of The Parthenon. Descriptions from an (*) arctic expedition by this artist's student Isaac Hayes provided the basis for his painting Aurora Borealis. This artist's interest in Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos inspired another landscape depicting two men in front of a cross, a waterfall, and Mount Chimborazo. For 10 points, name this Hudson River School painter of Cotopaxi and The Heart of the Andes.
A painting by this artist premiered at an exhibition at which more than twelve thousand people were provided with opera glasses to view it in a darkened room.
Frederic Edwin Church