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Description: The Course of Empire: Consummation

TitleThe Course of Empire: Consummation

Creator nameCole, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1835–1836

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions51 × 76 in.

LocationNew-York Historical Society

https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/54911/the-course-of-empire-the-consummation-of-empire

Accession number1858.3

SubjectsArchitecture in artImperialism in artHudson River school of landscape paintingGeology in artPainting, American--19th century

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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

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

2. The Colosseum: Ambiguities of Empire

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

~This is one of many juxtapositions in nineteenth-century American literature and painting of a representative American character and a classical architectural image, of which the Colosseum is by far the most commonly chosen. The Colosseum had by this time a complex...

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William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.43-67

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.007

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Chapter subject tags:Colosseum (Rome, Italy)United States--Civilization--Roman influencesAmerican literature--19th centuryJames, Henry, 1843-1916Painting, American--19th centuryCole, Thomas, 1801-1848Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904Artists--Travel--Italy--RomeHawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Rome (Italy)--In literature

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