Interior of the Colosseum, Rome
Thomas Cole Β· 1832
Why it's great
Thomas Cole paints the half-ruined Colosseum glowing in the Roman sun in 1832, the great arena of the emperors now open to the sky. Cole, a founder of American landscape painting, saw it on his trip to Italy and later painted a series about the rise and fall of empires.
ποΈ Part of history
Imperial Rome & Pompeii (14β180) β Thomas Cole paints the half-ruined Colosseum glowing in the Roman sun in 1832, the great arena of the emperors now open to the sky.
Where to see it
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Thomas Cole was born in England and moved to the United States as a teenager, settling near the Hudson River in New York. He founded the Hudson River School, a group of artists who painted America's wild landscapes. His paintings often carried messages about nature and civilization. He died in Catskill, New York, in 1848.
