Mount Pentelicus by Frederic Edwin Church, 1869 british columbia the Wrangell–St

the Wrangell–St

contemplative journey

Created at the dawn of Viollet-le-Duc’s half-century-long restoration campaign

Squares punctuate the texture

Mount Pentelicus by Frederic Edwin Church, 1869 british columbia the Wrangell–StFrederic Edwin Churchs Mount Pentelicus (1869) is a luminous meditation on landscape by one of the foremost painters of the Hudson River School. In this evocative canvas, Church turns his eye to Greeces storied Mount Pentelicuslong celebrated as the source of the fine Pentelic marble used in classical architecturerendering the mountain as both precise topography and a stage for quiet, monumental drama. Rather than a bustling narrative, the painting