Temple of Juno, Agrigentum
Thomas Cole · 1842 · graphite and white chalk on gray laid paper
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About this picture
Temple of Juno, Agrigentum is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Cole, dated 1842. Graphite and white chalk on gray laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Temple of Juno, Agrigentum” (1842) is either a Catskill view or one of Cole’s allegorical landscapes, where the scenery is also a story about the course of a civilization.
About the artist
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was the founder of the Hudson River School. He painted the Catskills and also allegorical series about the course of empires, using landscape as a moral story.
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