Roman Campagna, also called Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna Di Roma is an 1843 oil on canvas painting by Thomas Cole. It is currently displayed at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut.[1]

Roman Campagna
Roman Campagna, 1843
Artist	Thomas Cole
Year	1843
Medium	Oil on Canvas
Dimensions	80 cm × 106.7 cm (31.5 in × 42 in)
Location	Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Artist's background

Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”[2] Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.[3] As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region. Because of this, Cole was granted an additional clarity of and sensitivity to the vibrancy of American landscapes awash with color, a stark contrast to the bleak and subdued landscapes of the country he left behind.[4] From 1831 to 1832, Cole traversed Italy, where he encountered Roman ruins.[5]

References

Works cited

• Christopher, Tom. "Living Off the Landscape: How Thomas Cole and Frederick Church made Themselves at Home in the Hudson River Valley." Humanities 30, no. 4 (2009):6-11.
• Noble, Luis Legrand. The Life and Works of Thomas Cole. Edited by Elliot S. Vesell Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
• Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. “Hudson River School of Art”. http://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/hudson-river-school-art.

External links

• Explore Thomas Cole provided by the National Park Service