Frederic Edwin Church, 1879 - The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows) - fine art print

Original information about the work of art by The Cleveland Museum of Art (© Copyright - The Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org)

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.

This 19th century piece of art was made by the male painter Frederic Edwin Church. The original creation measures the size: Unframed: 118,8 x 183,2 cm (46 3/4 x 72 1/8 in) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. The artpiece has the following text as inscrption: signed lower left: F. E. Church / 79. Besides, this artwork can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art. With courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art (public domain). : Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 3 : 2, meaning that the length is 50% longer than the width. The painter, art collector, landscape painter, traveller Frederic Edwin Church was a North American artist, whose art style can be classified as Romanticism. The Romanticist painter lived for 74 years, born in 1826 in Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, United States and died in the year 1900.

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