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| The Course of the Empire - Destruction (Oil, 1836) |
| This
is the fourth in Thomas Cole's "Course of the Empire" series. (Be
sure to start at the first painting so that you can see how the sun
rises and moves through the sky. The mountain in the background
remains throughout, but in the foreground, there are considerable
changes.) Here are the links to each of the paintings: First Painting - Second - Third - Fourth - Last Cole chose something from Byron to help describe this work: There is the moral of all human tales; 'This but the same reheasal of the past First Freedom, and then Glory: when that fails Wealth, vice, corruption |
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