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Painting by Thomas Cole
This article is about the painting. For the region, see
Roman Campagna
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Roman Campagna
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Roman Campagna, 1843
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Artist
| Thomas Cole
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Year
| 1843
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Medium
| Oil on Canvas
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Dimensions
| 80 cm × 106.7 cm (31.5 in × 42 in)
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Location
| Wadsworth Atheneum
, Hartford, Connecticut
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Roman Campagna
, also called
Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna Di Roma
, is an 1843 oil on canvas painting by
Thomas Cole
. It is currently displayed at the
Wadsworth Atheneum
in Connecticut.
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Artist's background
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Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”
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Cole emigrated to
America
with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.
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As a child, his surroundings were of
Lancashire
,
England
, an area known to be an epicenter of
Britain
’s primarily industrial region. Because of this, Cole was granted an additional clarity of and sensitivity to the vibrancy of American landscapes awash with color, a stark contrast to the bleak and subdued landscapes of the country he left behind.
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From 1831 to 1832, Cole traversed Italy, where he encountered Roman ruins.
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See also
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References
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Works cited
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- Christopher, Tom. "Living Off the Landscape: How Thomas Cole and Frederick Church made Themselves at Home in the Hudson River Valley."
Humanities
30, no. 4 (2009):6-11.
- Noble, Luis Legrand.
The Life and Works of Thomas Cole
. Edited by
Elliot S. Vesell
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
- Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. “Hudson River School of Art”.
http://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/hudson-river-school-art
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