1847
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: Ruins of Karnac is a 1847 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This picture shows a group of people standing and sitting on a stone platform, looking at ancient ruins in the distance. The ruins include tall, broken walls and a few standing columns, with a wide, flat desert stretching around them. The sky is light and hazy, and everything is drawn in soft browns and grays. Notice how the artist made the ruins look both grand and worn out at the same time. The people in the foreground seem to be travelers or explorers, dressed in simple clothes from the 1800s. If you like this, look up Romanticism next to see how artists used ruins to tell bigger stories.
Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a lithographer and watercolourist from the Netherlands and then the United Kingdom.
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