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Description: The Course of Empire: Destruction

TitleThe Course of Empire: Destruction

Creator nameCole, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1836

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions39.25 × 63.25 in. (99.7 × 160.6 cm)

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/41597/the-course-of-empire-destruction

Accession number1858.4

SubjectsNatural historyImperialism in artHudson River school of landscape paintingGeology in art

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1. The American Identification with the Holy Land

John Davis

Description: The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American...

The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture

This short imperative, declaimed by John Danforth in the Massachusetts Assembly chamber at the beginning of the eighteenth century, contains within its succinct formulation the sentiments constituting the foundation of the nineteenth-century American fascination with the Holy Land. “Israel,” understood as...

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John Davis

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.13-26

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00149.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18481&redirecttoanchor=38243

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, American--19th centuryPalestine in artMiddle East--History--19th centuryReligion and sociology--United States--19th centuryBible--History of Biblical events--Art

Chapter One: Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science

Rebecca Bedell

The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875

~IN THE COLLECTION of the Bronck Museum in Coxsackie, New York, is a battered wooden box the size and shape of a briefcase. It contains Thomas Cole’s (1801–1848) mineral collection (fig. 5), one of the many bits of evidence we have of his interest in geology. Measuring about twenty by eighteen inches, the box holds...

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Rebecca Bedell

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-45

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18360&redirecttoanchor=38243

Chapter subject tags:Natural historyExcavations (Archaeology) in artScientific discoveries in artGeologyLandscape painting, American

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