Thunderstorm in the Alps
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"Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum" Object Description
Landscape study showing a dramatic view of a double rainbow arching over a lush valley in the the European Alps, as a jagged bolt of lightning strikes the ground at left. The flat, green valley floor extends from the foreground to the middle distance at left and to the background at right, with the onion-shaped steeple of a church shown in the middle distance at right. At center right, a ferociously burning building sends a plume of dark smoke into the sky. One bright rainbow vibrantly arches into the sky at center, with another, more faded bow beside it at right. At left, a white, zig-zagging bolt of lightning strikes the valley floor near a grove of trees. In the ...
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All Works in Curationist’s archives can be reproduced and used freely. How to attribute this Work:
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, Thunderstorm in the Alps, 1860s, "Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", Smithsonian Institution. CC0.
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