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stands out for its serene interpretation of a coastal Japanese village transformed by snow

suggesting the storied ports of the Eastern Mediterranean beneath a glowing

Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the celebrated angels that line the parapets

Landscape, near Palestine or Syria by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 holland 1200): A charming village withLandscape, near Palestine or Syria (1868) by Frederic Edwin Church captures the awe and atmosphere of the biblical Near East through the eyes of one of Americas greatest landscape painters. A leading voice of the Hudson River School, Church was renowned for marrying scientific observation with a sense of the sublime, rendering distant places with meticulous detail and luminous drama. Here, an expansive sky unfurls over stony hills and distant ridges,