Divertissements Sur Cuivre

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Through these images of a church ruin and an old tower inhabited only by pigeons, Lalanne addressed a prevalent theme in romantic art and literature: the fragility of human endeavors in the face of nature’s perpetual power. The great popularity of landscape imagery in the nineteenth century inspired European and American artists to explore a number of methods for rendering the subject, including printmaking, drawing, and photography.

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