Desktop background from a painting: a headless marble colossus striding above a sacked ancient city, shield raised, fire and black smoke pouring along a long colonnade behind it, fighting and fallen bodies on the steps below

The Course of Empire: Destruction

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DimmedDimmed is the painting made darker and less colourful, so your icons and clock stay easy to read. Off is the plain museum scan.

Thomas Cole, 1836

New-York Historical Society, 1858.4

Public domain · Source file

In Hudson River School · American painting

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