The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)
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Although the location that inspired the painting has been subject to scholarly debate, many believe it derives from Church’s travels through the Ecuadorean Andes nearly a quarter century earlier. The composition reads as an allegory of spiritual salvation: perched atop a dramatic cliff, a brilliantly backlit monastery overlooks a shadowed foreground where a solitary figure navigates a rugged path.
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Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900), The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows), 1879, Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0.
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