Title: Knights of the Brush
Subtitle: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape
Description: "This work of cultural criticism analyzes the masterpieces of the Hudson River School, America's golden age of landscape painting that flourished from almost 1825 to 1860. Iconic works by Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher Brown Durand, and others are examined in relation to the religious, moral, and aesthetic sensibility that underlies their work. For these painters there was a moral purpose in being an artist; art was a sacred obligation.

Perhaps not since the Middle Ages had a school of art infused such religious certitude into works of art."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Hudson River school of landscape painting, Civilization, Values, History, Hudson river and valley, Art, american, history, American literature, history and criticism, United states, moral conditions, United states, history, french and indian war, 1755-1763
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century