Columns of the Parthenon, Athens by Frederic Edwin Church, 1869 Size:14x24in (36x60cm) and impeccably balanced

and impeccably balanced

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Historical name: Amstelredamme

Columns of the Parthenon, Athens by Frederic Edwin Church, 1869 Size:14x24in (36x60cm) and impeccably balancedColumns of the Parthenon, Athens (1869) by Frederic Edwin Church captures the weathered dignity of antiquity with the sensitivity of a master observer. Best known as a leading light of the Hudson River School, Church turned his keen eye from panoramic wilderness to the architectural heart of classical Greece, setting his easel among the Doric colonnades of the Parthenon. Rather than a sweeping vista, he offers a close, reverent study of the columns