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| The Course of the Empire - Desolation (Oil, 1836) |
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is the fifth and last 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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