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Elizabeth Taylor tanning in Spain on the set of Suddenly Last Summer (1959).

View of Florence, Thomas Cole , 1837, Cleveland Museum of Art: American Painting and Sculpture

Cole visited Italy in 1831 and made a small pencil sketch of this vista of Florence shortly before sunset. In his New York studio six years later, he transformed the drawing into this large oil painting, adding picturesque humans and goats to the foreground. Exhibiting View of Florence alongside a painting of the Catskill Mountains in New York in 1837, Cole set out to prove that he had mastered the very different landscapes of the Old and New Worlds. Size: Framed: 125.4 x 186.7 x 9.2 cm (49 3/8 x 73 ½ x 3 5/8 in.); Unframed: 99.5 x 160.4 cm (39 3/16 x 63 1/8 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

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