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Frederic Edwin Church | The Parthenon | American | The Met Parthenon Frieze, Acropolis Greece, Frederic Edwin Church, The Parthenon, Albert Bierstadt, Hudson River School, Ancient Greek Art, Henry Moore, Classical Antiquity

Church visited Greece in 1869 and spent several weeks in Athens. There, he painted numerous studies and oil sketches of the ruins of the Parthenon that later served as the basis for this work. Although he intended to paint a large canvas of the Parthenon while still in Greece, it was not until 1871 that a commission from the financier and philanthropist Morris K

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A corner of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, painted by watercolor artist, Nomi Wagner. Greece Painting, The Parthenon, My Bucket List, Gloomy Day, Lovely Day, Athens Greece, Brooklyn Bridge, Athens, Art History

We visited Athens, Greece in 2006 and I got to check the Parthenon off my bucket list. We had studied it extensively in Art History at UCLA, so it was absolutely thrilling for me to be there in person … even on a gloomy day. My painting shows it to have been a lovely day, which for me it certainly was! Hope you enjoy the painting. Prints are available.

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