Romanticism in the United States took up themes of nature and spirituality in uniquely American ways.
c. 1800–1865 C.E.
Romanticism in the United States took up themes of nature and spirituality in uniquely American ways.
c. 1800–1865 C.E.
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The natural world and political metaphor, Church's Cotopaxi
Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion
Daniel Boone, Moses, and the western frontier: creating an American mythology
Cole, the great American landscape painter looks across the vast history of Western architecture
Captured here in paint, this grand Californian landscape would soon disappear under water.
Cole feared for the American landscape as his country expanded westward.
“Luminism” sounds like a subject at Hogwarts, but it actually describes landscape paintings like this one.
Adam and Eve have just been evicted from Paradise, and the grass was definitely greener on the other side.
Can we call a landscape painting “emo”? This brooding, melancholy canvas definitely tempts us to.
Church was the child star of nineteenth-century landscape painting; these astonishing canvases show us why.
This gigantic canvas is one of the most famous in the history of American art, but it wasn’t made in the USA.
Bank of America's Masterpiece Moment
While the movement of her body, buoyancy of her drapery and beating of her wings reflect the energy characteristic of the Hellenistic era, the artist and patron remain unknown. Learn more about this sculptural masterpiece with the President and CEO of the Musée du Louvre.