{"id":306,"date":"2012-02-25T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2012-02-26T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T21:06:16","slug":"thomas-coles-the-course-of-empire-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/thomas-coles-the-course-of-empire-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cole&#8217;s &#8220;The Course of Empire&#8221; (1834-36) [GUIDE]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Course of Empire\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/artmusic\/images\/thumb_empire.jpg\" alt=\"The Course of Empire\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Star icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Star.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Thomas Cole&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>The Course of Empire<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(1834-36) is a series of five allegorical paintings depicting the rise and fall of a fantastical civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Cole envisions a prehistoric age in which nature dominates man (<em>The Savage State<\/em>); an ancient utopia in which people live in balance with nature (<em>The Pastoral State<\/em>); an era of decadence (<em>Consummation<\/em>); war and chaos (<em>Destruction<\/em>); and finally, an uninhabited world in which the ruins of mankind are once again overtaken by nature (<em>Desolation<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h3>Topics<\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School [VIDEO]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/thomas-cole-and-the-hudson-river-school-video\/\">Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School [VIDEO]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Course of Empire: Narrative and Context\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/the-course-of-empire-narrative-and-context\/\">The Course of Empire: Narrative and Context [VIDEO]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Course of Empire: The Paintings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/the-course-of-empire-the-paintings\/\">The Course of Empire: The Paintings [VIDEO]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Music Inspired by Art<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Nell Shaw Cohen, \u201cThe Course of Empire\u201d (2008) Inspired by the paintings of Thomas Cole\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/nell-shaw-cohen-the-course-of-empire-2008-inspired-by-the-paintings-of-thomas-cole\/\">Nell Shaw Cohen, &#8220;The Course of Empire&#8221; (2008) Inspired by the paintings of Thomas Cole<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Thomas Cole&#8217;s\u00a0The Course of Empire\u00a0(1834-36) is a series of five allegorical paintings depicting the rise and fall of a fantastical civilization. Cole envisions a prehistoric age in which nature dominates man (The Savage State); an ancient utopia in which people live in balance with nature (The Pastoral State); an era of decadence (Consummation); war and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,63],"tags":[65,66,64],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-guides","category-romantic","tag-hudson-river-school","tag-the-course-of-empire","tag-thomas-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}