Roman Campagna (painting) explained

Roman Campagna
Artist:	Thomas Cole
Year:	1843
Material:	Oil on Canvas
Height Imperial:	31.5
Width Imperial:	42
Height Metric:	80
Width Metric:	106.7
Imperial Unit:	in
Metric Unit:	cm
City:	Hartford, Connecticut

Roman Campagna, also called Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna Di Roma, is an 1843 oil on canvas painting by Thomas Cole. It is currently displayed at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut.^[1]

Artist's background

See main article: Thomas Cole. Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”^[2] Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.^[3] As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region. Because of this, Cole was granted an additional clarity of and sensitivity to the vibrancy of American landscapes awash with color, a stark contrast to the bleak and subdued landscapes of the country he left behind.^[4] From 1831 to 1832, Cole traversed Italy, where he encountered Roman ruins.^[5]

See also

• List of paintings by Thomas Cole

References

Works cited

• Christopher, Tom. "Living Off the Landscape: How Thomas Cole and Frederick Church made Themselves at Home in the Hudson River Valley." Humanities 30, no. 4 (2009):6-11.
• Noble, Luis Legrand. The Life and Works of Thomas Cole. Edited by Elliot S. Vesell Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
• Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. “Hudson River School of Art”. http://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/hudson-river-school-art.

External links

• Explore Thomas Cole provided by the National Park Service

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roman Campagna (Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna Di Roma). Explore Thomas Cole. August 21, 2020.
2. Christopher, “Living Off the Landscape,” 1.
3. Noble, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, 6.
4. Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. “Hudson River School of Art,” 1.
5. Web site: Thomas Cole. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. August 21, 2020.