Paintings from 1845 by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church his pupil, Winslow Homer, and other American artists from the 18th century.
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Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible.
Although the term didn’t come into use until 1791, panoramic landscapes started earlier, and largely stopped by the end of the 19th century.
Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, Cézanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions.
Following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition of 1802, it was Frederic Edwin Church who painted this huge mountain range, and became famous as a result.
Burke’s sublime became attractive to some in the late 18th century. They took to the mountains, to record high peaks and narrow gorges in paintings. First of a new series.
The modified myth of Pandora remained popular well into the 20th century, when it must have seemed even more appropriate with war and pandemic.
Nesbit’s new husband shot dead the acclaimed architect Stanford White in Madison Square Garden, in a fit of insane jealousy.
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