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A horizontal landscape with grasses in the foreground, large rocks in the lower left, and Doric…
Temple of Paestum
A horizontal landscape with grasses in the foreground, large rocks in the lower left, and Doric…
A horizontal landscape with grasses in the foreground, large rocks in the lower left, and Doric temple ruins in the middleground. In the background are smaller temples at the left and right, two graves and a sea with hills beyond.
Temple of Paestum, Carl Brandt, 1904-1905, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Temple of Paestum

Artist (German, 1831 - 1905)
Date1904 - 1905
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 66 × 194 1/2 inches (167.6 × 494 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1905.4.6
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