From Alexander von Humboldt to Frederic Edwin Church: Voyages of Scientific Exploration and Artistic Creativity

Article in English, Abstracts in Spanish, German and English.Stephen Jay Gould wrote recently that “when Church began to paint his great canvases, Alexander von Humboldt may well have been the world’s most famous and influential intellectual.” Humboldt’s influence in the case of the landscape artist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank Baron
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universität Potsdam 2005-04-01
Series:HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/romanistik/humboldt/hin/hin10/baron.htm