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    The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). It depicts an idealized landscape...
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    The Andes (/ˈændiːz/ AN-deez), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes; Quechua: Anti) are the longest continental...
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    Frederic Edwin Church (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    (1858), The Heart of the Andes (1859), and Cotopaxi (1862). The Heart of the Andes, Church's most famous painting, pictures several elements of topography...
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    Mark Andes (born February 19, 1948) is an American musician, known for his work as a bassist with Canned Heat, Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall, Heart, and...
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  • Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes mountains. Of the 45 passengers on board, 29 survive the initial crash, although more would...
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    The Andes of Ecuador is an 1855 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church, the premier American landscape painter of the time. It is the most significant result...
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    known as the Andes flight disaster (Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes (Milagro de los Andes). The inexperienced...
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    Cayambe (volcano) (category Five-thousanders of the Andes)
    in the Cordillera Central, a range of the Ecuadorian Andes. It is located in Pichincha Province, some 70 km (43 mi) northeast of Quito. It is the third-highest...
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    in the foreground. It has been compared to, and exhibited with, The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church. Lander's Peak immediately became a critical...
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    Niagara (Frederic Edwin Church) (category Paintings in the National Gallery of Art)
    Great Picture, the Heart of the Andes. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780810964518. Berton, Pierre (2011). Niagara: A History of the Falls. Doubleday...
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  • 1859 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)
    Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors. While attending the free school, the Académie Suisse...
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    Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) and Clash by Night (1952). Andes was born to Mr. and Mrs. William G. Andes in Ocean City, New Jersey. By the age of 12, he was...
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    Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes, OCD (Spanish: Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes; born Juana Enriqueta Josephina de Los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar; 13...
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    Aurora Borealis (painting) (category Paintings in the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
    subject of his 1858 masterwork Heart of the Andes). Created at the end of the American Civil War, Aurora Borealis (1865) was believed to depict the portent...
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    Alexander von Humboldt (category Wikipedia articles incorporating content from public domain material of the Library of Congress)
    painting entitled The Heart of the Andes "caused a sensation" when it was completed. Church had hoped to ship the painting to Berlin to show the painting to...
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    Spanish conquests into the heart of the Andes in April 1536. After an expedition of a year, where 80% of the soldiers died due to the harsh climate, carnivores...
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    The Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) is a series of seven tapestries made in the South Netherlands around...
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    Picture: The Heart of the Andes. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 17. Jane A. Stewart. Great Americans of the past:Cyrus West Field. The Journal...
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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk (category American people of British-Jewish descent)
    1863 The Andes, Marche di Bravoura, a solo piano piece inspired by Church's large-scale South American painting of 1859, The Heart of the Andes. By the 1860s...
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    Following the album's release, the departed Andes and Carmassi were replaced by Fernando Saunders and Denny Fongheiser, respectively. Heart spent several...
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    The Temple of Dendur (Dendoor in the 19th century) is a Roman Egyptian religious structure originally located in Tuzis (later Dendur), Nubia about 80 kilometres...
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    Ugolino and His Sons (Carpeaux) (category Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    sculpture of Ugolino made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris during the 1860s. It depicts the story of Ugolino from Dante's Inferno in which the 13th century...
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    landmark single-picture exhibition of The Heart of the Andes in the building's central atrium. In 1879, Johnston deeded the building to his brother John Taylor...
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  • Heart is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 21, 1985, by Capitol Records. The album continued the band's transition...
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    Chimborazo (category Six-thousanders of the Andes)
    Ecuador in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes. Its last known eruption is believed to have occurred around 550 A.D. Although not the tallest mountain...
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    of South America, following pieces such as The Andes of Ecuador (1855) and The Heart of the Andes (1859). Like them, the painting is a composite of the...
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    Met Gala (category Balls in the United States)
    The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan...
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    for The Heart of the Andes. The broadside begins by orienting the viewer to the scene as a whole: The spectator is supposed to be standing on the ice...
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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest...
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    Heart returned in 1993 with Desire Walks On, on which bass player Andes was replaced with Fernando Saunders. The album peaked at number 48 on the Billboard...
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