Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_View_of_the_Mountain_Pass_Called_the_Notch_of_the_White_Mountans_(Crawford_Notch)-1839-Thomas_Cole.jpg
#AUTUMN & the #HudsonRiverSchool
‘A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains’ (Crawford Notch). Thomas Cole (1801–1848). 1839.
#ThomasCole #AmericanArt #autumncolors #autumnfoliage #WhiteMountains
Nel dipinto 🖼️, Thomas Cole, di Asher B. Durand, 1837 🎨
#Arte #Art #ArtHistory #StoriadellArte #Americanart #ThomasCole
6️⃣ Desolation
L'Ultima scena di questo meraviglioso ciclo artistico 🎨 è Desolation. Rovine silenziose, La natura riprende il controllo.
#Art #Arte #ArtHistory #StoriaDellArte #ThomasCole #Storia #Americanart
5️⃣ Destruction
La quinta scena è Destruction. Guerra e caos distruggono l'impero. Cole ci ricorda giustamente che ogni impero è destinato alla caduta.
#Art #Arte #ArtHistory #StoriaDellArte #ThomasCole
4️⃣ The Consummation of Empire
Nella quarta scena, The Consummation of an Empire, Cole mostra l'apice della gloria, templi grandiosi 🏛️, parate. È un avvertimento: l'orgoglio Porta alla rovina. Un parallelo con Roma?
#Art #Arte #ArtHistory #StoriaDellArte #ThomasCole #Roma #AnticaRoma
3️⃣ The Arcadia or Pastoral State
La seconda scena è The Arcadian or Pastoral State. Campi coltivati, templi semplici. L'età dell'oro, equilibrio tra uomo e natura. Cole idealizzato la vita rurale.
#Art #Arte #ArtHistory #StoriaDellArte #ThomasCole 🎨
2️⃣ The Savage State
La prima scena 🖼️ è The Savage State. Una natura selvaggia uomini primitivi cacciano. Simbolo dell'inizio, prima della civiltà. Cole mostra la purezza pre imperiale.
#Art #Arte #ArtHistory #StoriaDellArte #ThomasCole
1️⃣ Thread: The Course of Empire di Thomas Cole 🇺🇸 🖌️.
Tra il 1833 e il 1836,Thomas Cole (nella foto 📷), realizzò 5 dipinti 🖼️ che narrano l'ascesa e la caduta di un impero. Un monito contro l'orgoglio umano.
#Art #Arte #ThomasCole #ArtHistory #StoriadellArte ⬇️
Nel dipinto 🖼️, The Oxbow, di Thomas Cole, 1836 🎨
#Arte #Art #ArtHistory #StoriadellArte #Americanart #ThomasCole
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The Oxbow
Thomas Cole 1836
#TheOxbow
#ThomasCole
#ArtHistory1836
Life, death and immortality (1844)
#ThomasCole
#death #painting #art
Today feels like the opening #monologue of Lord Byron’s Manfred:
My slumbers—if I slumber—are not sleep,
But a continuance of enduring thought,
Which then I can resist not: in my heart
There is a vigil, and these eyes but close
To look within…
#ghoststory #closetromance #thomascole #drama #poem
The Savage State
The Arcadian or Pastoral State
The Consummation of Empire
Destruction
'The Course of Empire' #Art by #ThomasCole, completed 1833-1836🧵1/2
"#Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden."
🎨 American landscape painter #ThomasCole was #BOTD 1 February 1801. #Art #Painting
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
"Expulsion. Moon and Firelight", ca. 1828,
Oil on canvas.
#painting #oilpainting #ThomasCole #Cole #hudsonriverschool #romantism
One of a set of 4 paintings, available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/the...
#wallart #ThomasCole #VoyageOfLife #Old1842 #Clouds #Sunlight #Inspiring #water #boat #Journey #art
One of Four Amazing Painting in a set, available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/the...
#ThomasCole #TheVoyageOfLife #Youth #OilPainting #wallart #water #river #Journey #Landscape #trees
One of a set of 4 Amazing paintings linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/the...
#Childhood #TheVoyageOfLife #ThomasCole #oilPaintings #Rock #river #glow #boat #voyage #wallart
Beautiful Art for sale here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/the...
#ThomasCole #VoyageOfLife #Manhood #boat #water #wallart #Painting
« Architect’s Dream » by Thomas Cole
🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/7547440...
#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #ThomasCole #architecture #dreams #architects #mission #purpose
I don't often write academic articles, but when I do they are at least partly about The Pilgrim's Progress. Also #ThomasCole and #EdithWharton this time. Hope you enjoy! journalpanorama.org/article/repu... And check out the full new issue of #JournalPanorama at journalpanorama dot org!
Blessed be thy Ides of March
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📸: spaceseer Oct. 2022
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Listen to “The Course of Empire” by Thumos and spaceseer at
www.spaceseer.bandcamp.com 🏛️
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#rome #romanforum #thecourseofempire #spaceseer #thumos #juliuscaesar #italy #thomascole #historyofrome #idesofmarch #bewaretheidesofmarch