A Dream of Italy

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Sonntag, William Louis

Object Details

TITLE:

A Dream of Italy

DATE:

date unknown

ARTIST:

Sonntag, William Louis

MEDIUM:

Oil on canvas

DIMENSIONS:

12 1/8 x 20 in.

CREDIT LINE:

Bequest of Charles Knox Smith

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Description

A Dream of Italy is a landscape full of atmosphere and mystery. Ruins of a Roman aqueduct float across the pink and gray mist of a luminous terrain that seems to whisper with suggestions of historical gravity. Civilizations rise and fall, leaving behind traces of human achievements that are ultimately overwhelmed by the primordial, eternal power of nature.

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