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The Parthenon by Frederic Edwin Church

The Parthenon

Frederic Edwin Church

1871

Oil on canvas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A grand, ruined temple stands under a clear blue sky, surrounded by scattered stone debris and distant hills. A lone figure walks across the rocky terrain in the foreground.

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Hudson River School temple ruins column stone debris figure diagonal sweep asymmetrical balance strong verticals one-point perspective architecture landscape ruins

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