Mountainous Landscape III by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 Size:52x70in (132x178cm) celebrates the Venetian Republic through

celebrates the Venetian Republic through heraldic symbolism

while the meticulous road and river networks reveal how civil administration and defense overlapped

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this painting embodies the Romantic ideal that nature can be both restorative and profound

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Mountainous Landscape III by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 Size:52x70in (132x178cm) celebrates the Venetian Republic throughMountainous Landscape III (1865) by Frederic Edwin Church invites the viewer into a world of towering peaks, luminous air, and contemplative quiethallmarks of the Hudson River School at its zenith. A leading American landscape painter of the nineteenth century, Church balanced exacting observation with the Romantic quest for the sublime. Here, he channels the grandeur of a mountainous vista, its vast distances veiled in soft light and its rugged