Talk:The Heart of the Andes
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File:Church Heart of the Andes.jpg to appear as POTD
editHello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Church Heart of the Andes.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on November 26, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-11-26. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:56, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
The Heart of the Andes is an oil painting on canvas completed by the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church in 1859. It shows an idealized view of the Andes, which Church visited in 1853 and 1857. When it was first exhibited, the painting was a popular success, viewed by more than 12,000 people in a little less than a month. Poetry and music were written about it, and the painting was ultimately sold for $10,000 – at that time the highest price ever paid for a work by a living American artist. The Heart of the Andes was bequeathed by the owner, Margaret Dows, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art upon her death in 1909.Painting: Frederic Edwin Church