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The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows
Frederic Edwin Church
1879 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 118.8 × 183.2 cm
Believed to have been painted from sketches and memory of Church's travels to the Ecuadorian Andes two decades earlier. A lone figure walks forward on a path to salvation as the majestic Andes and the Monastery look from above.
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The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows (1879) by Frederic Edwin Church, oil on canvas.
About Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) "Church and Thomas Cole, the two most esteemed painters of the Hudson River school, were associated from 1844 to 1846 as pupil and master.
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