Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art

By James Anthony Ryan

Book Overview

The landscape, farm, house and collections that comprise Olana are a work of art conceived and executed by the preeminent mid-19th-century American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826?1900). Considered one of the most perfectly realized visions of harmony between people and their natural surroundings, Olana is a landmark of Picturesque landscape gardening with a Persian-inspired house at its summit embracing unrivaled panoramic views of the Hudson Valley. A rare American confluence of art and farming, aesthetics and conservation, landscape painting and landscape design, Olana represents a masterpiece of human creative genius.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883789281
• ISBN13: 9781883789282
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Black Dome Press
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"