Anatomy of Nature
An illuminating account of the interplay between science, religion, and nature in nineteenth-century landscape painting
Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape pain...
An illuminating account of the interplay between science, religion, and nature in nineteenth-century landscape painting
Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape pain...
