Mysterious and Sublime

A Close Look at a Famous Work by Thomas Cole. According to notions of the sublime, the human element is dwarfed to the point of being overwhelmed by Nature, which is seen as a vast world of violent, churning forces coldly indifferent to any human suffering Nature might cause. For Cole, there were few things more sublime than Nature embodying God's wrath, as he painted in his dramatic Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden of 1828.

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