Thomas Cole had a premonition of how our civilization would end. In a cycle of five paintings titled The Course of Empire, Cole showed the rise and fall of a great nation. The final canvas is a ...

It’s the same hesitancy that was shared by Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, whose epic five-part masterpiece The Course of Empire could ... thus illustrates the rise of a classical ...

In Thomas Cole’s advertisements for his Course of Empire series, he invokes Lord Byron’s elegiac observation as an epigraph of sorts. The five paintings, which span from the earliest stages of a ...

Thomas Cole, The Savage State, or The Commencement of Empire ... that it risks obscuring Cole’s deeper considerations of the distinct causes of this empire’s rise and fall. Yet what, if anything, can ...

This exhibition of work by the landscape painter Thomas Cole, though described ... of five paintings about the rise and fall of civilisation called The Course of Empire (1833-6).

Journey into the life & art of Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole. In part two of Reframing an Empire, we delve into the life, times, and legacy of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River ...

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction ... The entirety of this five-piece series depicting the rise and fall of a Classically inspired, imaginary metropolis is on view in its entirety ...

Hugh Thomas talked about his book Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan, published by Random House. In the book, Lord Thomas examined the conquest of the ...